George K. Arthur
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 26, 1899
Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Bardelys the Magnificent
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
Kiki
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Spring Fever
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
The Salvation Hunters
A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.
Lights of Old Broadway
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Bellhop in 'Detectives' (archive footage)
as Porter
as Dance Director
as Bertie Davis
as Drunk at Party
as Mr. Tressitt
as Bellboy
as Toby Crackit
as Gustl Linzer
as Alfred Brown
as Lester
as Self
as George
as Jerry
as George K. Arthur (uncredited)
as The Bellhop
as Drunk Student (uncredited)
as Leslie
as Self
as Jimmy Hemingway
as Eustace Tewksbury
as Benjamin Franklin Whipple
as Pepito
as Chevalier de Saint Eustache
as Bob
as Hamilton Day
as Book Agent
as Bert Jackson
as Peter Good
as Adolphe
as Colonel's Orderly
as Madame Lucy
as Andy
as Stranger
as Roger Van Horn
as Robert Well
as Self
as 'Chunky' Dunn
as The Boy
as Lionel Caryll
as Lem Lefferts
as Jack O'Hara - the Playboy
as Friend