Ernest Pagano

Ernest Pagano
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 47 (Writer)
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A Damsel in Distress
Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose... (imdb)
Dora\
A schoolteacher and his students help Dora make a commercial for her doughnuts.
You\
After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet, impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of the boss's scheme. Army conscription offers Robert the perfect escape from his troubles- or does it? (imdb)
Vivacious Lady
Assistant biology professor Peter Morgan falls in love with and marries nightclub singer Francey while he is in New York to fetch his wayward cousin home. On returning to the small town university run by his dictatorial and conservative father his courage fails him when he has to announce things. Some of the activities of his new bride do not make it any easier. (imdb)
The Matinee Idol
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. (imdb)
Lover Come Back
A faithful wife takes gentle revenge on her philandering husband. (imdb)
Forty Little Mothers
A girls'-school teacher stumbles on an abandoned baby. (tcm.com)
Frontier Gal
Frontier Gal was supposed to have starred Universal's in-house exotics Jon Hall and Maria Montez, but shifting studio politics resulted in the substitution of Rod Cameron and Yvonne DeCarlo. Cameron plays a fugitive from justice, wrongly accused of killing his partner. DeCarlo is a raucous saloon singer, forced at gunpoint to marry Cameron. After a reasonably blissful wedding night, DeCarlo turns Cameron over to the law. (allrovi.com)
Managed Money
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy. (imdb)
Bridge Wives
Bridge Wives (1932) - Short Film
Mrs. Smith is participating in a marathon bridge tournament, and Mr. Smith has become anxious and desperate as a result. (imdb)
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star. (imdb)
Honeymoon Trio
This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best. (imdb)
What\
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one. (imdb)
Allez Oop
Allez Oop (1934) - Short Film
A man working in a clock repair shop meets a woman who brings in her watch to be fixed. When the watch has been repaired, he personally delivers it to her, and soon after that they go to the circus together. While at the circus, though, the woman becomes attracted to a trapeze artist, and soon there is a rivalry for her affections. (imdb)
That Night with You
Tone is suave, Foster appealing and Bruce just right as the romantic diner owner whose vision of getting married and having six kids flies in the face of Foster's dreams of stardom.
Love Thy Neighbor
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister Barbara are also en route to the dock to meet Barbara's daughter Mary, returning from a personal appearance tour in South America. Josephine is her maid. Their cars get involved in an accident and, in a bumping contest, Fred reduces Jack's old Maxwell to junk, and is taken to jail. (imdb)
Super-Sleuth
An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime. (imdb)
Son of a Sailor
A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets the granddaughter of an admiral and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system. (imdb)
Artist\
Andy "Sunshine" Wilson, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, catches a ride with motorist Luckenbach who is on a suicide mission, and nearly succeeds in his mission. Luckenbach is a great portrait artist suffering under the slight handicap of being unable to "do ears." The artist has painted a beautiful portrait of the wife of Pietro Cellini with the exception that her left ear is several times larger than it should be and not painted very well at that. (imdb)
That\
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
San Diego I Love You
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Honeymoon Beach
Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for Connie to marry playboy Billy Bevan, who is unaware of Ma's intentions, as is Blondie who has plans of her own regarding Billy. The laughs here are only slightly less scarce than the chicken in the boarding house chicken-and-dumplings in "True Grit."
A Pair of Socks
This was the sixth of seven Moran and Mack shorts made and released by Educational Pictures. Here they end up in the boxing ring.
Blue Blackbirds
Moran and Mack ends up house watching a potentially haunted house.
Two Black Crows in Africa
Moran and Mack drifts up on shore in Africa and get acquainted with the wild life.
The Farmers\
Moran and Mack become farmers.
Techno-Crazy
Techno-Crazy (1933) - Short Film
TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress in society bringing a "technocracy" that's a utopia and Billy Bevan as the Mayor, whose daughter Collins wants to marry, the short begins with a dream sequence where Collins is running a factory on his own and explaining to someone how no one needs to work in this new utopia and everything operates automatically.
Torchy\
Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.
Crashing Hollywood
When the story begins, a country cousin, Helen, arrives in Hollywood to make it big. She stays with her cousin and her friend and the pair assume Helen is very naïve since she's unfamiliar with the big city. However, again and again, Helen shocks them as she seems perfectly suited for the big time...and by the time she arrives at their apartment, a studio boss boss has ALREADY asked Helen to marry him!
Queenie of Hollywood
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted.Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
The Lure of Hollywood
Hollywood hopefuls Virginia Brooks, Rita Flynn and Phyllis Crane finally get a break and cast.... but when Miss Brooks is rehearsing a love scene with her leading man, boyfriend George Chandler doesn't realize it and knocks him down. Later, the director forgives them, and Miss Brooks kisses him..... and Chandler, at the craft table, starts throwing pies.
Three Hollywood Girls
First entry in the Hollywood Girls series.
The Tamale Vendor
Tom and a friend meet a Senorita and she laments that she's being forced to marry a man she doesn't love....and Tom agrees to come with her and try to help.
Hollywood Lights
Rita Flynn, Virginia Brooks, and Tut Mace need sixty dollars to beat it out of Hollywood forever. Happily, a studio calls with work for all three, which will bring in the needed money. The problem is they don't know which studio.
A College Racket
Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another student arrives disguised as the Dean, and they all vacate the premises. The student tells the proprietor that if he will returns the I.O.U.s signed by a student, he will see to it that the students visit his place every night. He, of course, is the student who signed the tab. But the real Dean then shows up.
As the Crows Fly
First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
Hot Hoofs
Hot Hoofs (1933) - Short Film
Moran and Mack decide to attend the races and end up winning a large sum on a horse named Mud Lark. They decide that to make even more money, they need a horse of their own. They buy a horse with a broken leg from a crooked gambler, but manage to con the gambler into buying back his own horse.
Loose Relations
The stereotype in old movies and TV shows is that the man hates his mother-in-law. Well, in "Loose Relations" it doesn't follow this convention, as Andy Clyde is actually happy that his mother-in-law is coming to stay with them and he plans on fixing up a place for her to stay. In a funny scene, when he tells his neighbors, they offer his an axe and a gun!
Trimmed in Furs
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
Pop\
Pop's Pal (1933) - Short Film
Billy Bevan comedy short involving warring fathers-in-law, Lloyd Hamilton in small role.
Keyhole Katie
A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
Smart Work
Smart Work (1931) - Short Film
Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy’s wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn’t know that.
One Quiet Night
Walter Catlett is suffering from a potentially fatal case of hiccoughs -- caused by an annoying young man who wishes to marry his daughter -- and his doctors prescribe for him rest in a place as quiet as a tomb: a haunted house.
The Big Squeal
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas.
Feeling Rosy
Feeling Rosy (1933) - Short Film
Andy Clyde is in desperate need of a vacation, and it's not exactly helping the stress.
Idle Roomers
Idle Roomers (1931) - Short Film
The acrobatic Molino brothers give hotel-keeper Fern Emmett a rough time in this Educational one-reeler, directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
The Back Page
George Chandler stars in this Educational MERMAID TALKING COMEDY, directed by Fatty Arbuckle. Chandler gets accidentally tangled with a gangster.