In this romance, an ex-Marine begins looking for a fellow Vietnam vet in hopes of making it as musicians in New York. He...
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1970
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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With Vacation in Reno, RKO contract actress Anne Jeffreys proved herself an accomplished comedienne, a fact verified by her...
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Jack Carroll
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1946
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Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker...
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Pinky Wilson
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1946
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This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble...
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Larry Elliot
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1945
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In this musical comedy, an arrogant war journalist is sailing back to the Big Apple after the end of WW II. En route, he has...
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Steve
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1945
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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Jack Williams
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1945
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Higher and Higher was advertised by RKO Radio as "The Sinatra Show", and small wonder: In his first major film role, Frank...
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Mike O'Brien
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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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Jack North
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1944
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Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance...
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1944
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It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a...
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Squidge
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1942
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The first of several remakes of 1938's Three Blind Mice, the Technicolor musical Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable and...
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Jack O'Hara
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1941
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The 1940 peacetime draft spawned a whole slew of military and naval comedies, the most successful of which was Abbott and...
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Powerhouse Bolton
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1941
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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The Tin Woodsman
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1939
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Davey Lane
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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Orville Smithers
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1938
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This tuneful campus comedy features aging star John Barrymore as a sly, blustery Southern governor with his eye on the Senate...
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Wilbur
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1938
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Thanks for Everything is an unjustly forgotten lampoon of media promotional stunts. Jack Haley wins a contest sponsored by an...
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Henry Smith
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1938
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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A naive gas station attendant's life takes a turn for the better when he is adopted by an eccentric, boozy travelling...
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Danny Decker
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1937
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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Joe Jenkins
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1937
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An airy screwball comedy, Danger--Love at Work explores the lives of a wealthy but wacky family. Ann Sothern plays the...
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Henry Mac Morrow
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1937
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Hotel barber Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley), who's obsessed with newspaper stories about high-society celebrities, is dragooned...
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Joe Jenkins
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1936
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Jimmy Dolan
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1936
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The first of 20th Century-Fox's college musicals, Pigskin Parade is also close to the best of them in musical terms -- though...
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"Slug" Winston Winters
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1936
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In this comedy a persistent, pesky fountaineer takes to following two government agents in hopes of becoming one of them....
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Johnny Dime
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1936
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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Peter Mathews
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1935
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It is said that former gagman Clyde Bruckman spent most of his directing days sitting in his canvas chair quietly nursing a...
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Sykes
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1935
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Ann Sothern and Jack Haley star in this inconsequential little musical. Haley is a struggling playwright of minimal talent,...
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Henry
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1935
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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Chuck Hornbostel
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1935
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Mike Scanlon
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1934
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Pete Pendleton
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1933
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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Jack Martin
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1930
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