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The Beverly Hillbillies Go Hollywood

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 09

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: The opening story arc of The Beverly Hillbillies' ninth and final season finds the Clampett family briefly leaving Beverly Hills for a location-filmed jaunt to Washington D.C, there to help the president fight the scourge of air pollution. Upon arriving in the nation's capital, hillbilly Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 08

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Still riding high in the ratings after seven years on the air, The Beverly Hillbillies launches its eighth season on CBS. The festivities commence with the series' highly publicized return to its "roots": that is, the cast briefly leaves its Beverly Hills environs for an extended visit to mountain Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 07

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Though it hardly seemed possible to those grouchy TV critics who had long ago dismissed The Beverly Hillbillies as a one-joke pony, the series was still coming up with infinite variations on that one joke (millionaire mountaineers transplanted to Beverly Hills) as it entered its seventh season on Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Cake from Granny

Synopsis: Charles Lane makes his final Petticoat Junction appearance in the role of nasty railroad executive Homer Bedloe. As the last gesture in his long-running efforts to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball, Bedloe has arranged the antique train engine to be replaced by an up-to-date bus service. This time Read More

Petticoat Junction: Granny, the Baby Expert

Synopsis: This is a "crossover" episode between Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies, the second installment in a three-part Hillbillies story arc. Upon hearing that Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) has given birth, old family friend Granny Moses (Irene Ryan) travels from Beverly Hills to Hooterville Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 06

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Those acerbic TV critics who'd predicted back in 1962 that the phenomenally successful The Beverly Hillbillies would wear out its welcome after three seasons must have been writhing in agony as the series entered its sixth year on the air in the fall of 1967. Although it had dropped from its Read More

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

Actors: Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon, Tim Herbert

Synopsis: Unfortunately, the comedy in this film is just about as crummy as its title. On the bright side, it does feature a number of veterans from popular TV sitcoms. It is set in a run-down diner where a bumbling short-order cook and a klutzy waitress work. They are so terrible at their jobs that they Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 05

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Season five of The Beverly Hillbillies finds the sturdy Clampett clan -- Jed (Buddy Ebsen), Elly May (Donna Douglas), Jethro (Max Baer Jr.), and Granny (Irene Ryan) -- still retaining their mountain-grown values and essential decency despite Jed's millionaire status and the family's luxurious Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 04

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: After 106 black-and-white episodes, The Beverly Hillbillies switched to color for the start of its fourth season in the fall of 1965. Evidently the transition to color was heartily approved of by the series' fans: having finished season three at 12th place in the ratings, The Beverly Hillbillies Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 03

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Having emerged as America's highest-rated sitcom of all time during its second season on CBS, The Beverly Hillbillies was a "shoe-in" for a third-season renewal, remaining in its familiar Wednesday night slot for another year beginning in the fall of 1964. Season four gets off to a rousing start Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 02

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: America's top-rated TV series The Beverly Hillbillies retained its Number One status as it entered its second season on CBS in the fall of 1963. By this time, newly-rich mountaineer Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) and his family have become accustomed to their swank new Beverly Hills surroundings, but Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 01

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Bea Benaderet

Synopsis: The first season of The Beverly Hillbillies can be regarded as a "shakedown" cruise, with the newly-rich Clampett family making first contact with the wealthy upper crust of Beverly Hills, CA, adapting to their strange but luxurious surroundings with a combination of farcical ignorance and Read More

Desire in the Dust

Actors: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's son in an auto accident. Actually the accident Read More

Rockabilly Baby

Actors: Virginia Field, Douglas Kennedy, Les Brown, Irene Ryan, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In this musical, an ex-fan dancer leaves the burlesque to start a new in a small town with her two teenage children. There she soon becomes one of the most respected women in town; she also falls in love with the school principal. Unfortunately, her happiness disintegrates when her past is Read More

Spring Reunion

Actors: Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Sara Berner, Robert Simon, Laura La Plante

Synopsis: After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion. The scene is a medium-sized Midwestern town, where Maggie Brewster (Hutton) is reacquainted with her high-school flame Fred Davis (Dana Andrews) during a class reunion. The Read More

Ricochet Romance

Actors: Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis: Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the Read More

Army Capers

Synopsis: Army Capers was the bland British title of the raucous Republic musical The Wac From Walla Walla. Hillbilly songstress Judy Canova is the eponymous heroine, who accidentally enlists in the army at the outset of the film. Canova proves the equal of any man in uniform when she foils the insidious Read More

Bonzo Goes to College

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Drake, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who escapes a seedy sideshow and hides out on a college campus. Here he is adopted by Betsy Drew (Gigi Perreau), the daughter of nonplused professor Malcolm Drew (Charles Drake). Read More

Blackbeard the Pirate

Actors: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Robert Newton exhibits absolutely no shame in his portrayal of the title character in Blackbeard the Pirate. If you thought that Newton's "Arr, matey"s got out of hand in Treasure Island, wait til you see this one. The plot concerns the efforts of the British admirality to bring Blackbeard to Read More

The Wac from Walla Walla

Actors: Judy Canova, Stephen Dunne, George Cleveland, June Vincent, Irene Ryan

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a rambunctious small-town girl inadvertently joins the Army and decides to make the best of it. Songs include: "Lovey," "If Only Dreams Came True," "Boy, Oh Boy," "Song of the Women's Army Corps." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Half Angel

Actors: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Basil Ruysdael, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays Nora, a prim and proper nurse, engaged to the stuffy Tim (John Ridgely). Unbeknownst to both, Nora is a sleepwalker; during her nocturnal forays, the less-inhibited side of Read More

Meet Me After the Show

Actors: Betty Grable, MacDonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns Read More

There's a Girl in My Heart

Actors: Lee Bowman, Elyse Knox, Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied Artists. Such was the case of There's a Girl in My Heart, a period musical that any of the larger studios would have been proud of. The only indication of its Monogram origins Read More

Mighty Joe Young

Actors: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Mr. Joseph Young, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: Hoping to make the magic of King Kong happen again, the production team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack came up with the 1949 special-effects smorgasbord Mighty Joe Young. Robert Armstrong reprises his Kong portrayal of Carl Denham as hot-shot showbiz entrepreneur Max O'Hara. While in Read More

The Accused

Actors: Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Dick

Synopsis: The Accused is a mystery melodrama with a predictable plot involving blackmail, attempted rape and murder. Loretta Young stars as Wilma Tuttle, a prim and proper college professor who unwittingly arouses the libido of student Bill Perry (Douglas Dick). When Perry tries to rape Wilma under cover of Read More

My Dear Secretary

Actors: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Helen Walker, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee

Synopsis: Produced by comedy specialist Harry M. Popkin and his brother Leo Popkin, My Dear Secretary stars Kirk Douglas as Owen Waterbury, a best-selling novelist with an eye for the ladies. When aspiring writer Stephanie Gaylord (Laraine Day) signs on as his secretary, Waterbury assumes that he's lined up Read More

Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven

Actors: Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, Lionel Stander, Florence Bates

Synopsis: Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven deserves a historical footnote as director William Castle's only comedy western. Future Wild Bill Hickok star Guy Madison plays Eddie Taylor, a lonesome cowboy who falls in love with city-gal Perry Dunkin (Diana Lynn). The couple "meets cute" in Brooklyn, where the two Read More

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Actors: Gloria Jean, Jimmy Lydon, John Hubbard, Frances Rafferty

Synopsis: The combination of star Gloria Jean and director Arthur Dreifuss resulted in several pleasant if unmemorable late-1940s musicals. In An Old-Fashioned Girl, Jean is cast as Polly Milton, the poor relation of a prosperous 19th-century Boston family. Rather than accept financial support from her Read More

The Woman on the Beach

Actors: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande

Synopsis: A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his Read More

Heading for Heaven

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Glenda Farrell, Russ Vincent, Irene Ryan, Milburn Stone

Synopsis: In this comedy, a realtor at the end of his rope is grossly misdiagnosed as having three months to live. The already hyper-nervous man is therefore convinced that he will die. Later some of his clothing is recovered from a local creek and his family and friends assume that the poor man took his Read More

The Beautiful Cheat

Actors: Bonita Granville, Margaret Irving, Sarah Selby, Irene Ryan, Tommy Bond

Synopsis: The Beautiful Cheat was one of the last B pictures produced by Universal studios before its merger with International Productions. The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent Read More

Diary of a Chambermaid

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid is a noble experiment: a "Continental" sex drama with a virtually all-Anglo cast. Paulette Goddard plays the title character, a saucy servant named Celestine whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Read More

Little Iodine

Actors: Jo Ann Marlowe, Marc Cramer, Eve Whitney, Irene Ryan, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: Running a mere 56 minutes, Little Iodine was the first of five "streamliners" produced by Comet Productions, a company formed by Mary Pickford, her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and former Columbia exec Ralph Cohn. Based on the comic strip by Jimmy Hatlo, the film stars Jo Ann Marlowe as Iodine Read More

That Night With You

Actors: Franchot Tone, David Bruce, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on Read More

That's the Spirit

Actors: Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, June Vincent, Gene Lockhart, Johnny Coy

Synopsis: The producer/screenwriter team of Michael Fessler and Ernest Pagano turned out several offbeat comedies for Universal in the 1940s; curiously, the one with the most fanciful plot, That's the Spirit, is the most conventional of the bunch. On the verge of fatherhood, happy-go-lucky Steve (Jack Read More

San Diego, I Love You

Actors: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore

Synopsis: Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family. Papa (Edward Everett Horton) is an erstwhile inventor working on a collapsible life raft, which Allbritton tries to promote to a handsome financier (Jon Hall) who mistrusts Read More

Hot Rhythm

Actors: Dona Drake, Robert Lowery, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Sidney Miller

Synopsis: Robert Lowery and the comedy team of Tim Ryan and Irene Ryan star in this pleasant musical-comedy about a jingle-writer (Lowery) attempting to turn his girlfriend (Dona Drake) into a band vocalist. Unfortunately, there is a case of mistaken identity and the bumbling recording studio owner (Tim Ryan Read More

Melody Parade

Actors: Tim Ryan, Mary Beth Hughes, Eddie Quillan, Irene Ryan, Mantan Moreland, André Charlot

Synopsis: The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a nightclub busboy who hopes to become a big-time producer. Mary Beth Hughes costars as Anne O'Rourke, a hatcheck girl with singing aspirations. The arrival of supposed heriess Gloria Read More

O, My Darling Clementine

Actors: Roy Acuff, Isabel Randolph, Frank Albertson, Lorna Gray

Synopsis: Country-western star Roy Acuff is top-billed in the Republic musical comedy O, My Darling Clementine. The story concerns a band of ragtag musicians, headed by Acuff, who blow into a hoity-toity town where the "right people" look down on pickin' and grinnin'. The town's social arbiter is Mrs. Read More

Sarong Girl

Actors: Ann Corio, Irene Ryan, Mantan Moreland, Bill Henry

Synopsis: Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy Sarong Girls. Corio is cast as stripteaser Dixie Barlow, who manages to avoid a prison sentence when her attorney Gil Gailord (Damian O'Flynn) claims that she's the sole support Read More

The Sultan's Daughter

Actors: Ann Corio, Charles Butterworth, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Edward Norris

Synopsis: In this frothy musical, a sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American. WW II erupts and her father finds himself courted by an agent from the German government for the rights to the oil fields. When that doesn't work, the conniving agent then tries to sway the Sultan's Read More

Reveille with Beverly

Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the Read More

Unfinished Business

Actors: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston S. Foster, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran

Synopsis: The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when his Unfinished Business failed to live up to its expectations, La Cava's enemies swooped down like vultures. Seen today, the film is hardly one of the director's best Read More

Melody for Three

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Fay Wray, Walter Woolf King, Schuyler Standish, Patsy Lee Parsons

Synopsis: For some reason or other, Melody for Three seems to be the most frequently revived of RKO Radio's "Dr. Christian." As ever, Jean Hersholt stars as Christian, kindly general practitioner of the town of River's End. In this one, Dr. Christian takes an avuncular interest in young Billy Stanley Read More