Film timeline
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Walt Disney is born
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice... Read more
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Theodore Roosevelt Visits San Francisco
On Tuesday, May 12, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt paid an official visit to San Francisco. Cameraman H. J. Miles captured the president's... Read more
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Harry Houdini stars in 'The Grim Game'
A gang of men frame Harvey Hanford (Houdini) for murder, and also decide to kidnap his fiancée. Hanford is quickly apprehended by the police and... Read more
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Houdini Starts Houdini Picture Corporation
Following his two-picture stint in Hollywood, Houdini returned to New York and started his own film production company called the "Houdini Picture... Read more
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Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was a Walt Disney animated film released on May 19, 1937 for a limited time to help promote the... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Makes First Film Debut as Andy McCaine in "Love Is On the Air"
Love is on the Air is a 1937 film directed by Nick Grinde. The film stars Eddie Acuff, Robert Barrat, Raymond Hatton, Willard Parker and Ronald... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Jack Withering in "Going Places"
Dick Powell and Anita Louise are the nominal stars of the horse-racing comedy Going Places (1938), but Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong steals the show as... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears at Private Dennis Reilley in "Sergeant Murphy"
Private Dennis Reilly has followed his horse, Sergeant Murphy, into the army and when Murphy is transferred to the cavalry, Dennis transfers also.... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears in "Boy Meets Girl"
Boy Meets Girl (1938) is a perfect example of why Warners' contract actors and directors were called The Warner Bros. Stock Company. The film... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Jack Miller in Swing Your Lady
Wrestler Joe Skopapolous, together with his manager, Ed, and his trainers, Popeye and Shiner, arrives in a small town in the Ozarks hoping to... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears in "Hollywood Hotel"
Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American film, directed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, and Ted Healy. Ronald Reagan... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Eric Gregg in "Accidents Will Happen"
Insurance investigator Eric Gregg shows great promise, but he is not advancing fast enough in his career to suit his wife Nona. Eric's shrewd... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Pat Dunn in "Cowboy from Brooklyn"
Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American film. Ronald Reagan starred in the film. Plot Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears in "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 Warner Bros. crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Neil Dillon in "Girl on Probation"
Warner Bros.' Girls on Probation was, and is, a potboiler, redeemed slightly by its cast. The fascinating, underused Jane Bryan stars as innocent... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Dan Crawford in "Brother Rat"
Billy Randolph, Dan Crawford, and Bing Edwards are roommates at the Virginia Military Institute, known as the West Point of the South. Billy is in... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Lieutenant 'Brass' Bancroft in "Secret Service of the Air"
At the end of the 1930s, Ronald Reagan's career was typical of any second-string studio contract actor––playing supporting roles and bits in top... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Alec Hamm in "Dark Victory"
Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Lieutenant 'Brass' Bancroft in "Code of the Secret Service"
Ronald Reagan stars as Treasury Department agent Brass Bancroft in Code of the Secret Service (1939) – the second film in Warner Bros.'s Secret... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Ed 'Eddie' Clark in "Naughty But Nice"
One Warner Bros. career ended while another rose in Naughty But Nice (1939), a light-hearted musical that spelled the end of Dick Powell's contract... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Jim Donohue in "Hell's Kitchen"
Hell's Kitchen is a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids. Plot Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields) is a paroled... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Deputy District Attorney Patrick "Pat" Remson in "The Angels Wash Their Faces"
The Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids. Plot Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) is... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Lieutenant 'Brass' Bancroft in "Smashing the Money Ring"
After appearing in a small role in Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory, a big hit for Warner Brothers in 1939 and recipient of multiple Academy Award®... Read more
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Ronald Reagan Appears as Dan Crawford in "Brother Rat and a Baby"
The 1938 Warner Bros. picture Brother Rat -a breezy comedy about a trio of rapscallion military cadets - was a sizable enough hit to compel the... Read more
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Ronald Regan Appears as Marty Allen in "An Angel from Texas"
...An Angel from Texas (1940), reunited the Reagans with Eddie Albert and Wayne Morris, their co-stars in the popular military academy comedy... Read more