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Leon Alton

August 23, 1907 · 119 years old

Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s. In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted h…

Known For

18 titles
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Marnie

Marnie

1964 · 2h 10m · Movie

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

7.1
2
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1954 · 2h 34m · Movie

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

7.5
3
Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

1958 · 1h 46m · Movie

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

6.8
4
The Tingler

The Tingler

1959 · 1h 22m · Movie

An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

6.6
5
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956 · 1h 53m · Movie

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

7.5
6
The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1964 · 1h 39m · Movie

Meek and mild mannered bookkeeper Henry Limpet has few passions in life. It's mid-1941 and he would love to join the Navy but has been rated 4F. His friend George Stickle is in the Navy and lays it on pretty thick. If Henry could ...

6.5
7
Party Girl

Party Girl

1958 · 1h 39m · Movie

Lawyer Tommy Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gaye encourages him to go straight, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.

7.0
8
Désirée

Désirée

1954 · 1h 50m · Movie

Desiree Clary falls for Napoleon but marries Bernadotte, while Josephine weds Napoleon to become Empress before being dismissed for not producing an heir.

6.4
9
The Swan

The Swan

1956 · 1h 44m · Movie

When a crown prince visits, the princess's mother tries to push the prince into marrying her daughter by presenting a "rival" at the ball - her children's handsome tutor.

6.4
10
The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

6.7
11
Sirocco

Sirocco

1951 · 1h 38m · Movie

A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.

6.2
12
Hollywood or Bust

Hollywood or Bust

1956 · 1h 35m · Movie

A singer who can't pay his bookie joins a nerdy, star-struck movie fan and his Great Dane in a cross-country convertible ride to Hollywood.

6.4
13
Phffft

Phffft

1954 · 1h 28m · Movie

While pursuing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.

6.6
14
Period of Adjustment

Period of Adjustment

1962 · 1h 52m · Movie

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.

6.2
15
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

1968 · 1h 42m · Movie

When carefree bachelor David Sloane tries to persuade his best friend Harry Hunter to drop mistress Carol Corman and return to wife Mary, romantic complications suddenly spring to life.

6.3
16
Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl

1953 · 1h 32m · Movie

A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.

6.3
17
Never a Dull Moment

Never a Dull Moment

1968 · 1h 39m · Movie

Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.

6.1
18
The Juggler

The Juggler

1953 · 1h 24m · Movie

In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.

6.5