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1998
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Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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Lippert Productions' Air Strike is grounded for most of its 63 minutes by its skintight budget. The much-awaited aerial...
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Marg Huggins
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1955
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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Ruth Kroner
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1949
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Polly Milton
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1948
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A rapidly maturing Gloria Jean is the star of the Columbia musical Manhattan Angel. She's cast at Madison Avenue copywriter...
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Gloria Cole
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1948
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Newly arrived at Columbia, quickie producer Sam Katzman tried his hand at a musical with I Surrender Dear. Gloria Jean stars...
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Patty Nelson
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1948
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Groucho Marx made his first solo film appearance away from his brothers in the musical comedy Copacabana. Groucho plays...
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Anne
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1947
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River Gang was another of Universal's attempts to tap the dramatic potential of their young singing star Gloria Jean. The...
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Wendy
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1945
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In this drama, a goodie-two-shoes singer tries to save her bankrupt family by getting a radio job. She is soon entangled in...
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April
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1945
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In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl,...
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Judy
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1945
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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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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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Melinda
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1944
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Reckless Age is a by-the-numbers Universal musical, elevated by the presence of perky songstress Gloria Jean. The star plays...
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Linda Wadsworth
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1944
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Jane
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1944
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This youthful musical follows the romantic travails of a group of talented high school students and their charismatic high...
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Jinx Page
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1944
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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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Victoria Peabody
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1943
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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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Patricia
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1943
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There's a joke currently making the rounds amongst underpaid civil servants in the state of Vermont: "Moonlight in Vermont-or...
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Gwen Harding
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1943
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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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Sue
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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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Marilyn
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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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Doris Stanley
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1942
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His Niece
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1941
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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Patricia Johnson
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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Midge
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1940
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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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Pip-Emma
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1939
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