In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend...
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1990
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More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an...
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Featured Music
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1988
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Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like...
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1987
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1969
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Songwriter
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1967
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This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This...
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Composer (Music Score), Lyricist
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1955
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Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn's final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer's last Danny Kaye...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1952
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Where's Charley?, Frank Loesser's hit Broadway musical version of Brandon Thomas' evergreen stage farce Charley's Aunt, was...
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1952
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The title character (Paul Douglas) is a pro football player of the early 1940s at the end of his career. Douglas is offered a...
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1951
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1949
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an...
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1949
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The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the...
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Songwriter
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1949
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Newspaper reporter Marion Hargrove's best-selling novel was adapted to the screen by MGM as a vehicle for Robert Walker. The...
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Songwriter
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1943
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit continued humming profitably along with 1943's Tornado. Chester Morris (who eventually appeared...
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Songwriter
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1943
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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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Songwriter
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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Songwriter
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1942
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Like the John Steinbeck novel on which it is based, Tortilla Flat is not so much a movie as a series of warm-hearted...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1942
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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Sweater Girl is an okay remake of 1935's College Scandal, and like its predecessor is that rare bird, a "musical mystery"....
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1942
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Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in...
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1942
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Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life...
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Songwriter
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1941
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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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Songwriter
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1941
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Sailors on Leave stars William Lundigan as sailor Chuck Stephens, who has borrowed so much money from his fellow gobs that...
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Songwriter
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1941
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The South Seas romance is set on the scenic island of Tahiti where the island chief betroths his son to a woman and then...
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Songwriter
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1941
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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Songwriter
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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1940
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1940
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This mistaken-identity concoction takes place on a college campus--a familiar locale for Paramount B-pictures. Wayne Morris...
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Imagine the dismay of those hapless TV station managers who've booked the 1940 Martha Raye vehicle The Farmer's Daughter in...
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Songwriter
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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Songwriter
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1940
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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In the tradtion of producer Harry Sherman's earlier Zane Grey westerns for Paramount, Heritage of the Desert features an...
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1939
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Songwriter
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1939
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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A female con artist becomes involved in the abduction of a miner. The target of the con is a wealthy Easterner. The con...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Rural America was viewed with a nostalgic air during the late 1800s and early 1900s, even though no one at the time could...
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1916
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