Jesse Graves
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1879-03-11
Place of Birth:Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Also Known As:Jessie Graves, Jesse A. Graves

Easy Living (1937)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Deep South (1937)
1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.

Without Reservations (1946)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who...

Sleepers West (1941)
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Three Godfathers (1936)
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching...

The House on 56th Street (1933)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home...

All-American Co-Ed (1941)
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for...

The Invisible Menace (1938)
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of...

Going Places (1938)
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Stronger Than Desire (1939)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

On Your Toes (1939)
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

Allegheny Uprising (1939)
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many...

These Glamour Girls (1939)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

In Name Only (1939)
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...

Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Love Crazy (1941)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

The Lady Objects (1938)
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Once a Doctor (1937)
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both...

The Beloved Brat (1938)
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

The Green Pastures (1936)
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black...

Dangerous Partners (1945)
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

The Sea of Grass (1947)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with...

The Little Foxes (1941)
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...

Jezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

They Drive by Night (1940)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Maryland (1940)
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his...

Safari (1940)
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds...

Son of Ingagi (1940)
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Citizen Kane (1941)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

Lady from Louisiana (1941)
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

Whispers (1941)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

Memories and Melodies (1935)
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.

After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.

Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.

On Dress Parade (1939)
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

Mission to Moscow (1943)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Johnny O'Clock (1947)
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

Ruthless (1948)
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to...

Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her...

Imitation of Life (1934)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

Lydia (1941)
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...

Give Me Liberty (1936)
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.

Mannequin (1938)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)
The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140...

The Missing Juror (1944)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

The Egg and I (1947)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.

California (1947)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...