Shelton Brooks

Shelton Brooks

Date of Birth: 04 May 1886

Country: Canada

Biography: Composer of popular music and jazz, who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century. Brooks starred in several 1920s musical comedies. After the sudden death of his partner Florence Mills in 1927, he stopped appearing in stage shows and pursued a nightclub act. He also had a radio show on the CBS network in the 1930s. In the 1940s he became a regular in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", a long-running salute to burlesque that played in both New York and Los Angeles, Californ

Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor)

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    Double Deal
    Tommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for Nita, frames the robbery on McCoy. The latter's big-brother thinks otherwise and, with Nita's help, sets out to prove it.
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    Adventures of Kitty O\
    Dragging along her spineless boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O'Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss's murderer. In her exuberance she and Johnny keep running into more corpses, as well as the unbelievabley inept team of Inspector Clancy and his sergeant, Mike. Their luck seems to run out, though, as they deliver themselves right into the hands of the murderer. (imdb)
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    Professor Creeps
    Two cut-rate private detectives are broke, hungry and down to their last nickel. They decide to hock their banjo in order to get some money for food, and while one partner is negotiating the deal, the other one falls asleep and dreams that a wealthy society matron has hired them to investigate a string of suitors.
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    Up Jumped the Devil
    Mantan Moreland and Shelton Brooks play two parolees out looking for a job. they apply and get a job on a wealthy estate as a butler and a maid. Mantel plays a big-chested maid and Shelton the butler. The plot involves a shady swamie trying to steal the lady of her jewelry and succeeding. Enter Mantan and Shelton to trick the swamie into getting the jewelry back and him arrested.
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