Meredith MacRae joins the cast as the third (and final) actress to assume the role of Billie Jo Bradley as Petticoat Junction...
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1966
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Kate (Bea Benadaret) is delighted when her daughter Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley) lands her first job. But Kate is less than...
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1965
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Fluffy the lion is featured in this comedy. He plays the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter...
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Claridge
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1965
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Ernest Truex guest-stars as "Square Deal Sam" Washburn, a veteran confidence trickster. Sam's latest suckers are the...
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Sam Washburn
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1964
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Jeweler DuBois (Emile Genest) short-changes Captain McCabe (John Ireland) by selling a 5,000-dollar black pearl for a huge...
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1962
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Charles Whitley
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1962
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At the urging of her boyfriend, Mark (Jack Cassidy), pretty young Charlotte Jameson (Hazel Court) accepts the marriage...
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1961
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Appropriately telecast December 25, 1959, this Twilight Zone episode focuses on a most unusual Santa Claus, in the form of...
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Pedott
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1959
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1958
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The Leather Saint is an uneasy blend of religious drama and prizefight picture. John Derek stars as Father Gil Allen, an...
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1956
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Dr. Delbert
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1956
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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Homer Purdy
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1948
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In this frothy, star-studded Warner Brothers outing, tightwad tycoon Jonathan Turner, believing himself at death's door,...
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Mr. Bull
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1947
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Edgar G. Ulmer's Club Havana is Grand Hotel, PRC style. The titular club is a popular nightspot where everyone who is anyone...
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1946
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Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for...
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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In 1912, John Bunny and Flora Finch starred in the one-reel farce The New Secretary, wherein Bunny's wife hires a homely...
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Williams
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1945
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A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in...
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Uncle Rudy
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1945
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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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1944
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In this crazy comedy, a casino worker writes a book about headhunters and finds himself the target of the leader of an...
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1944
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Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the...
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Mr. Holton
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1943
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, a plucky young woman launches a successful campaign and becomes mayor of her tiny hometown. Now she...
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1943
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In this lively romantic farce, a Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If...
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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In this comedy, a slightly addled young advertising executive works for his father's radio-advertising agency. His first job...
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1942
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Once Upon a Thursday was the original released title of The Affairs of Martha, a 1942 Marsha Hunt vehicle from the MGM...
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1942
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1942
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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1942
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Three different Universal pictures made between 1922 and 1941 bore the catchall title Don't Get Personal. The 1941 film stars...
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1941
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer revolves around the misadventures of two not-overly-bright motorcycle patrolmen. Waitress...
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Harold Bruggins
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1941
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Previously brought to the screen as a Marion Davies vehicle in 1927, Russ Westover's long-running comic strip Tillie the...
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1941
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From first frame to last, foxy Charles Coburn thoroughly dominates the proceedings in the bubbly RKO Radio comedy Unexpected...
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Wilkins
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1941
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Though Republic Pictures had discontinued its "Higgins Family" series in 1940, the studio continued filming its stray...
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A.J. Wilbur
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1941
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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1940
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1940
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Frank Stone
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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1940
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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1940
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1940
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Poor Mr. Trippe, a spineless spouse, finds himself brow-beaten by his overbearing nag of a wife who constantly reminds him...
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Homer Trippe
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1940
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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Mr. Gibbs
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1939
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In this frothy screwball comedy, Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is a private detective who is dedicated to his job but still...
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1939
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In this comedy/drama, a feisty taxi-dancer (Lana Turner in her first starring role) takes on a sorority full of snooty...
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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Frobenius
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1939
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A remake of a 1930 Universal film, Little Accident was the third starring vehicle for androgynous juvenile star Baby Sandy....
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Tabby Morgan
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1939
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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In this lively campus-set musical comedy, a budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme to...
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Professor
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1938
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Veteran character actors Mary Boland and Ernest Truex are aces as the stars of Republic's Mama Runs Wild. "Mama" is...
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Calvin Summers
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1938
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30....
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1938
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Ever youthful Tom Brown once more plays a campus football hero in Swing That Cheer. Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob...
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Prof. Peabody
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1938
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In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act....
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Prof. Orlando Beebee
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1938
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In this sentimental drama, a nightclub singer finds herself in charge of her late sister's children. To support them...
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1936
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In this mystery, an aspiring mystery writer breaks into a home and finds it inhabited by dangerous gangsters. ~ Sandra...
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1933
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In this crime-comedy, an aspiring pulp writer elopes with a young woman and ends up in a boot-legger's lair. There he...
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Wallace Porter
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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Sapiens
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1933
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1933
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1932
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This comedy was based on the stage success by William Anthony McGuire and features several of the actors who appeared in it...
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Gilbert Sterling
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1923
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The husband-wife writing team of Anita Loos and John Emerson wrote the screenplay for Good-Bye, Bill, with Emerson performing...
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1919
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Best known to contemporary film fans for his milquetoast comedy roles, pixieish Ernest Truex was once a credible young...
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1916
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1914
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Eclair's When Rome Ruled was an opulent if not entirely successful imitation of the Italian "epic" films then flooding the...
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1914
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1913
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