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1997
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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1981
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The eponymous young comic is Richard Lewis, Mr. Jewish Angst himself. Lewis agonizes over moving from his native New York to...
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1979
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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Singer, songwriter, and actor Anthony Newley produced, directed, co-wrote, scored, and starred in this bizarre...
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The Presence
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1969
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A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze,...
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1967
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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1967
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1965
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A European princess and her aunt come to New York to buy clothes for the royal coronation, Riff Manson (Jack Jones) is...
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Himself
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1959
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New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking,...
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1957
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Yesterday and Today is a rare 1954 documentary history of the movies, from their beginnings to the technological advance of...
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1954
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Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne. A lover of the arts,...
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Producer
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1953
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Producer
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1952
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The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars...
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Producer
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1952
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Mitzi Gaynor plays legendary vaudeville headliner Eva Tanguay, whose signature tune was the bouncy "I Don't Care". The film's...
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Producer
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1952
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Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a...
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Producer
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1951
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Producer
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1951
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Jean Peters is at her feisty best in Anne of the Indies. Harboring a grudge against all men (and not without reason), Anne...
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Producer
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1951
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This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....
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Producer
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1949
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Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories,...
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Screen Story
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1949
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Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular...
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Producer
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1949
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Producer
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1948
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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Songwriter
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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Producer
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1947
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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Producer
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1947
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Producer
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1946
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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Producer
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1945
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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1944
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After a year's absence, entertainer Eddie Cantor returned to the screen in the self-produced Show Business. The plot is...
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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In this war comedy, the reluctant hero finds himself drafted and forced to fight the Germans whom he feels he has nothing...
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Play Author
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1933
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with...
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Screenwriter, Luigi
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1929
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In this drama, with a story that closely parallels the 1927 feature The Jazz Singer, a Jewish son disregards his father's...
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Screenwriter, Georgie Jessel
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1929
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His Lower-East-side accent unheard, George Jessel is still able to convincingly portray the Hebraic title character in George...
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George Washington Cohen
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1928
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Izzy Murphy
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1927
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1927
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Broadway entertainer Georgie Jessel beat his "friendly rival" Al Jolson to the screen by one year in the wartime comedy drama...
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Izzy Murphy
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1926
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Fred Hartley (Ned Hay) is a hard-working family man; Mrs. Hartley (Ellen Cassidy) prefers to waste her time flitting around...
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1919
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