Six-Five Special is an expansion on the popular BBC TV variety series of the same name. Not unlike America Bandstand, the...
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1958
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1954
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around,...
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1951
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The 62-minute GI Jane may well be the best of Lippert Studios' "pocket" musicals. TV producer Tim (Tom Neal) is in the midst...
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1951
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Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service...
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1951
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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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1950
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When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline...
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1950
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Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard was the second entry in Columbia's "David Harding, Counterspy" series. Howard St. John stars...
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1950
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No sooner had Columbia called it quits with the "Blondie" series than the studio launched a new group of "B"-pictures, based...
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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Marsha Hunt seems far too mature and intelligent for the pulpish goings-on in Mary Ryan, Detective. Still, Hunt was a pro...
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1949
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Gene Autry's second 1949 release for Columbia was Riders of the Whistling Pines. As was customary for Autry, the title refers...
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Joe Lucas
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1949
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1949
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Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a...
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1949
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1949
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Filmed almost entirely on location, Walk a Crooked Mile was Columbia Pictures' "answer" to 20th Century-Fox's late-1940s...
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1948
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The fifth entry in Columbia Pictures' "Rusty" series, about a boy and his dog, My Dog Rusty returns to the focus of the first...
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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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1948
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With a little extra effort, Columbia's Key Witness might have been a model B picture. John Beal plays inventor Milton Higby,...
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Larry Summers
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1947
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In this musical, a young socialite reluctantly attends an exclusive school; she would rather be working on becoming a...
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Tommy Randell
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1947
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A talented small town gal from Tennessee ends up in the big city after she is discovered by a talent scout. Though the scout...
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1947
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In the first of his three serials for Columbia Pictures, Larry "Buster" Crabbe starred as Captain Silver who, with his crew,...
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1947
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In this musical comedy a young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true. Songs include:...
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1947
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In this musical, a group of veterans and their gals put on an amateur show at the summer resort being visited by a Broadway...
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Ricky Malone
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1946
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Though legendary entertainer Al Jolson was a highly visible presence on the U.S.O. circuit during World War II, he was...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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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 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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1946
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Inspired by the radio program of the same name, Night Editor features Charles D. Brown as the editor of the New York Star. In...
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1946
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Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung...
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1946
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The Story of G.I. Joe was based on the columns of Scripps-Howard war correspondent Ernie Pyle (Burgess Meredith). Though...
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1945
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There were some theatres in 1946 that refused to display the anagramatic title of this film on their marquees: it was, after...
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1945
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In this comedy, two young women make their money scamming dance hall patrons. The two conniving gals attempt to victimize...
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Billy Sparks
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1945
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Let's Go Steady was Columbia's annual "audition" musical, spotlighting the studio's latest crop of young contractees. Cheated...
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Henry McCoy
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1945
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The title Together Again referred to the fact that frequent costarsIrene Dunne and Charles Boyer were once more united on...
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1944
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In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room,...
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1944
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