A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his...
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1997
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Donald O'Connor guest stars as Harlow Safford, an elderly, decidedly eccentric timber baron. A sanity hearing in court will...
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1996
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Barry Levinson directed this cautionary fantasy fable--a triumph of production design--concerning the clash between...
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1992
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A puppeteer (Donald O'Connor) who had a successful career in the early days of television has fallen on hard times in "Strung...
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1992
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In this sentimental family drama, a talented young boy is encouraged to pursue a singing career by his priest....
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1990
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25 year ago, a fatal stabbing occurred during a broadcast of the popular TV comedy-variety series "The Barry Barnes Show."...
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1990
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Reminiscing, a famous crooner remembers the miracle that launched his career after he lost his ability to sing. ~ Sandra...
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Father Walsh
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1988
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The relatively blah title The Devil gives no indication as to the postapocalyptic trappings of the plot. After the Big Boom,...
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1984
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Part of the Broadway Theater Archives, this stage production of Lewis Carroll's children's fantasy Alice in Wonderland was...
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1983
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This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as...
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Lory Bird
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1983
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Born in 1899, James Cagney managed to become one of America's greatest and most imitated actors. Some of his best-known films...
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1981
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Milos Foreman's cinematic adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's sprawling pop-culture epic Ragtime follows a variety of characters...
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Evelyn's Dance Instructor
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1981
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Donald O'Connor guest stars in this appropriately dance-themed episode. Aspiring hoofer Vera (Beth Howland) hopes to get her...
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1981
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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Narrator
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1974
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress pays her bills by working as a maid for various households. One of her...
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Harvey Granson
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1965
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This is one of the first sitcom episodes to acknowledge the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. Hoping to cash in on the...
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Director
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1964
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It's likely that the 60-minute pilot Brilliant Benjamin Boggs had been gathering dust on the shelf for nearly two years...
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1964
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Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken...
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Aladdin
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1961
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Predictable and demeaned by low-brow humor, this comedy-drama by George Marshall revolves around the amorous entanglements of...
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Murray Prince
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1961
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This semicomic Playhouse 90 episode was based on a true case history, as related in The 50 Minute Hour, a book by...
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Robert Harrison
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1957
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The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster Keaton, played by...
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Buster Keaton
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1957
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Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on...
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Ted Adams
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1956
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Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series...
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Sliker Donovan,Lt. Peter Stirling
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1955
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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Tim Donahue
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1954
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Francis Joins the WACS was the fifth in Universal's comedy series about a talking Army mule and his hapless human companion....
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Peter Stirling
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1954
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Walking My Baby Back Home is a bubbly musical of no significance whatsoever, but this doesn't diminish its enjoyability...
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Jigger Millard
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1953
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Melvin Hoover
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1953
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In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big...
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Peter Stirling
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1953
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Kenneth
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1953
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Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal's money-spinning series about a talking mule. Donald O'Connor once...
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Peter Stirling
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1952
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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Cosmo Brown
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1952
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Peter Stirling
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1951
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is a combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward...
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Edward Timmons
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1950
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The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and...
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Roger Bradley
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1950
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Double Crossbones is an unusually elaborate comedy vehicle for Donald O'Connor. Set in the Carolinas in the 18th century, the...
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Dave Crandall
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1950
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One of the better Universal "budget" musicals of the postwar era, Yes Sir, That's My Baby serves as an excellent showcase for...
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William Waldo Winfield
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1949
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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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Peter Stirling
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1949
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' starts off on a tense note as a struggling man is led through the streets of a western town,...
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Wilbur McMurty
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1948
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Are You with It? is a Universal vehicle for Donald O'Connor, who in 1948 was just making the transition from juvenile parts...
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Milton Haskins
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1948
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Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he...
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Charlie Read
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1947
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Pat Donahue, Jr.
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1945
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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Jimmy Monahan
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1944
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A musical comedy star whose career is just starting to take off returns home from military school. En route, he meets a...
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Donald Corrigan
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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Jimmy Plum
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Drama students rebel in this musical set in a tiny drama school. The trouble begins when the students begin complaining to...
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Donald
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1943
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It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and a strong cast squandered...
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Ricky
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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Don Warren
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1943
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A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing...
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1942
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A bit higher-budgeted than most of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Get Hep to Love runs a full 79 mintues rather than the...
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Jimmy Arnold
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1942
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The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a...
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1942
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By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home....
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Frankie
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1942
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1942
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There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a...
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1942
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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Butch Smiley
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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Ted Streaver at Age 12
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1939
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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1939
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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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Huckleberry Finn
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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A champion Great Dane is the murder victim in this mystery. Investigating the case is the youthful assistant of a travelling...
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Small Fry
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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Butch
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1939
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No relation to the 1932 W.C. Fields comedy of the same name, Million Dollar Legs is a college picture starring most of...
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Sticky Boone
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1939
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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Mike Beebe
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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Sons of the Legion is a showcase for Paramount's juvenile-talent pool-specifically, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee and Billy...
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Butch Baker
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1938
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Operatic tenor James Melton stars as on-the-skids bandleader Tod Weaver, who finds himself in charge of an all-girl...
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1937
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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