If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine...
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1944
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Amidst its usual yearly quota of adventure films, Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit turned out a handful of comedies and...
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Jerry Clinton
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1944
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At least 30 percent of Universal's "vest-pocket" musicals of the 1940s included the word "Hi" in the title. Such was the case...
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1944
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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A group of opportunistic gold diggers con an aging millionaire playboy into investing in a night club in this musical...
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1943
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Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI...
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1943
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Back in the 1940s, it was not uncommon for recording artists to cut records exclusively for the jukebox trade, and sometimes...
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Genevieve Horton
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1942
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Another timely entry from the Columbia assembly line, Canal Zone stars Chester Morris as flight instructor "Hardtack"...
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1942
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Chester Morris makes his second screen appearance as crook-turned-detective Boston Blackie in this superior series entry....
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1941
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Ruby Keeler made her final screen starring appearance in the Columbia musical Sweetheart of the Campus. Keeler plays Betty...
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Harriet Hale
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1941
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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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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Mitzi
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1937
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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Particia
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1937
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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Connie Martin
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1936
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