The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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1961
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In this comedy, a married couple is deeply embarrassed when their daughter reveals her father's indiscretions on a national...
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1959
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Though very tame by contemporary standards, Tunnel of Love was considered the last word in racy comedy back in 1958. Adapted...
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1958
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My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film...
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1955
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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From Musical by, Play Author
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1953
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1953
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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1952
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but...
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1948
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Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the...
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1948
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The second Hollywood-filmed effort from the British-based Eagle Lion company, Lost Honeymoon is a decided improvement on the...
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1947
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After a five-year absence, the Marx Brothers returned to the screen in the independently-produced effort A Night in...
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1946
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1945
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The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC...
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1944
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Rosalind Russell plays aspiring Ohio journalist Ruth Sherwood, who heads for New York to seek her fortune, accompanied by her...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1942
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1941
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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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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In this western, a dashing caballero makes a wager with his gang that he can court a beautiful dancer and lure her back to...
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1939
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The titular girl is Lupe Velez, a tempestuous cabaret entertainer. Donald Woods plays a staid American ad man who hires her...
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1939
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The thoroughbreds invoked by the title are a stray colt and the teenaged boy (Jimmy Lydon) who raises the animal. Despite the...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a shyster lawyer makes his living earning acquittals for his guilty clients. Most recently he freed a...
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1939
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In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance...
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1938
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In director Reinh Schunzel's film Rich Man, Poor Girl, the upper crust collides with the more financially unfortunate members...
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1938
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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In this thriller, an ex-pilot develops a useful new navigating device and decides to test it out. Unfortunately the test-run...
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1937
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The Commodore (Fred Stone), an average man in an average small town, is incensed that killers and thieves are able to use...
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1936
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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1936
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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In this drama, set at the turn-of-the-century an ingenious young jockey finds his reputation sullied by criminals. He...
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1936
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This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie....
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1935
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It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
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1935
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In her first starring role, 18-year-old Ann Rutherford plays Joan, a singer in a cheap waterfront café. Gambling-ship...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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1931
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