The Glenn Miller Story traces Miller's rise from pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successful big band of...
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1954
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1952
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Singer Frances Langford stars as herself in Purple Heart Diary. The film is a reenactment of Langford's USO tours during WW...
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Herself
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1951
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Based on a novel by Charles Huckelmann, Deputy Marshal was a "special" by the standards of cost-conscious Screen Guild...
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Janet Masters
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1949
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Make Mine Laughs was the second of three RKO Radio "pastiche" films, largely comprised of musical and comedy highlights from...
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1949
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Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one...
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1948
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The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon...
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Ann
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1947
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In this WW II romance, a small-time nightclub singer who works in a little Manhattan nightclub has a one-night stand with a...
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Louise Anderson
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1946
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Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker...
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1946
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Every so often, RKO Radio got the notion to launch a series of annual musical extravaganzas a la MGM's Broadway Melody and...
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Sally Baker
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1945
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Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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Susan Jackson
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1944
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown...
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Flo Daniels
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1944
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The career girl in this PRC musical is Joan (Frances Langford), a Kansas City gal with showbiz aspirations. She heads to New...
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1944
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In their last starring film, The Ritz Brothers play the Three Funny Bunnies, a trio of nightclub comedians. The plot...
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Julie Russell
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1943
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In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He...
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1943
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Robert Paige plays a struggling songwriter who poses as a millionaire cowboy. It's all part of a zany, wacky and nutty scheme...
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Babs Lee
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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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1942
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Beth Cornell
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1942
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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Virginia
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and...
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Patricia
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1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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Pat Abbott
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1940
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Dreaming Out Loud represented the film debut of radio favorites Lum 'N' Abner, aka Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. Proprietors...
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Alice
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1940
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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Eileen Eilers
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1940
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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In this musical an agent hawks a new singing star to irritate a wealthy socialite whom he managed to get on the radio. There...
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Ruth Allison
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1937
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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Joan Smyth
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1936
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A never-completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance. The plot is another...
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1936
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In this musical comedy a Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school from his late aunt. He breathes life...
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Miss Hay
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1936
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Susan Moore
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1935
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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1935
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