This video is part of a series that showcases some of the high points in the early history of American television. This...
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1995
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Narrated by Milton Berle, Hey Abbott! is a compilation of highlights from Abbott & Costello's numerous television programs....
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1978
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Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the...
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Phyllis Warren
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1957
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Among the reasons that Doris Cole (Hillary Brooke) has left her husband Peter (John McNamara) is that she once awoke to find...
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1957
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In her efforts to make a good impression on British movie producer Sir Clive Richardson (Walter Kingsford) -- and,...
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Angela Randall
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1956
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This 1956 episode of the CBS dramatic anthology Screen Directors' Playhouse was historically significant as the first TV...
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1956
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The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own...
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1956
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1955
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Alex Nicol stars as writer Mark Kendrick, who becomes involved in an affair with his murderous neighbor Carol Forrest...
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1954
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Completed in 1953, Dragon's Gold was released by United Artists early the following year. John Archer (the father of...
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Vivian Crosby
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1954
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The hero of The Maze turns out to be a giant frog, but that's hardly the most unbelievable aspect of this one-of-a-kind...
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1953
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Originating during the science-fiction/Red-Scare boom of the '50s, Invaders From Mars is an entertaining little picture that...
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Mary MacLean
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1953
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When Lou (Lou Costello) accidentally shoots his neighbor Mrs. Crumbcake (Elvia Allman) out of a tree and perforates her...
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1953
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In this comedy, a housewife schemes to make her dreams of feeling the soft touch of mink on her hardworking shoulders a...
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1953
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Lou (Lou Costello) has a terrible toothache, and Abbott (Bud Abbott) takes him to see a near-sighted dentist (Sidney Fields)....
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1953
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Set in Mexico, this thriller centers on an author who becomes obsessed with solving a murder that occurred fifteen years...
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1953
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The Abbott & Costello Show marked the last major commercial success for the comic team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The...
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1952
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1952
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As was his custom, director Andrew L. Stone filmed most of Confidence Girl away from the studio on actual locations. The...
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Mary Webb
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1952
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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Capt. Bonney
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1952
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Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory...
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Square Deal Sal
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1951
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In this adventure-fantasy, an American rocket ship crashes upon a remote island in the Pacific and an Air Force pilot and a...
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Maria Stevens
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1951
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Richard Denning is Insurance Investigator Tom Davison in this Republic second feature. Davison has been assigned to look into...
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Addie Wilson
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1951
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Lucky Losers is an uncharacteristically dramatic entry in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" comedy series. Incredibly enough, Slip...
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Countess
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1950
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Vendetta began as a pet project of producer/director/writer Preston Sturges. Producer Howard R. Hughes was at first...
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Lydia Nevil
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1950
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Wanda Hendrix is awfully cute as a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien,...
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1950
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The TV-generated popularity of professional wrestling in 1950 inspired a brief cycle of inexpensive films on the subject....
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Flo Woodbury
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1950
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As indicated by the title, Beauty on Parade is largely an excuse to display beautiful, well-proportioned young women in the...
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Gloria Barton
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1950
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Raymond Burr stars as Roger Lewis, the ruthless publisher of a Confidential-style scandal magazine. For a fee, Lewis will...
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Doris King
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1950
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Diana Emerson
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1949
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One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with....
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Linda Waring
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1949
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This comedy focuses on a nuclear scientist who believes that his dead brother has been reincarnated as a dog. ~ Rovi...
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1948
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Pine-Thomas Productions' "Big Town" film series, based on the radio program of the same name, came to an end with Big Town...
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Lorelei Kilbourne
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1948
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Lorelei Kilbourne
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1947
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Big Town was the first of a series of Pine-Thomas productions inspired by the radio series of the same name--which in turn...
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Lorelei Kilbourne
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1947
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Top-notch police reporter Lorelei Kilbourne (Hillary Brooke) decides to resign her job when her novel is published, and gives...
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Lorelei Kilbourne
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1947
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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Meg Saladine
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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Kate
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1946
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Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with...
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1946
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MGM knew it had a valuable property in Red Skelton, but the studio never really knew how to handle his unique talents --...
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Mildred Trist
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1946
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Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is a dedicated research scientist who is very close to a breakthrough in her field of...
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1946
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In this backstage musical comedy, a Broadway producer knows that his latest show will be a hit, but before he can stage it,...
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1946
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MGM's first "Maisie" entry in two years, Up Goes Maisie once more stars Ann Sothern as eternally stranded showgirl Maisie...
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Barbara Nuboult
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1946
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In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage....
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Kathleen Carson
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1945
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1945
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Lydia Marlow
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1945
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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1944
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1944
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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Alice Todd
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1944
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1944
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An innocent man is drawn into a web of espionage when he unwittingly comes into possession of a crucial piece of microfilm in...
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The Second Mrs. Bellane
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1944
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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1944
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Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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Sally Musgrave
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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1942
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This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens...
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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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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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1942
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Pamela
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1942
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The Western debut of former opera bass George Houston, The Lone Rider Rides On also inaugurated a new series from struggling...
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1941
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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Tom Cameron (George Houston) is falsely accused of murdering a rancher in this "Lone Rider" Western series entry from poverty...
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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Out of work as usual, showgirl Maisie Revier (Ann Sothern) takes a job as the maid for a wealthy family. She wins over the...
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1941
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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1940
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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1940
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1939
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In the introductory episode of The Abbott & Costello Show, we meet the two heroes, down-on-their-luck performers who owe too...
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