The Untold Secrets of Television's Greatest Hits offers stories about the productions of eight famous programs. Among the...
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2005
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2002
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In addition to highlighting some of Lucille Ball's funniest TV moments, Lucy's Lost Episodes includes various commercial...
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2000
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The original Army Navy "screen magazine" was a news and information film that was shown before the main feature in military...
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1999
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1998
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1997
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Lucy Arnaz, daughter of comedy duo Desi and Lucie Arnaz, hosts this intimate retrospective of her legendary parents' lives....
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1992
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This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians,...
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1991
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Here's a slew of songs taken from the popular I Love Lucy series. Included here are: "Babalu Rap" (Produced by...
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1991
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1990
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Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising...
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1989
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This program includes a parade of jingles and authentic advertisements for cigarettes - all from the carefree days when...
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1987
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The ads for The Stone Pillow tended to suggest that this TV movie was Lucille Ball's dramatic debut--completely ignoring the...
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Florabelle
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1985
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This entertaining vintage video offers up some very funny classic commercials from TV and movie personalities. Watch for...
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1980
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A complaint call to the White House yields unexpected results when an incensed housewife from Indiana discovers the president...
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Executive Producer
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1977
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Catherine
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1976
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Norma Michaels
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1974
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Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance...
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Mame Dennis
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1974
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Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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1973
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Lucy Carter
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1973
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Lucy Carter
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1972
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Lucy Carter
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1971
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Lucy Carter
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1970
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Lucy Carter
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1969
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Dean Martin hosts this 1968 television special filled with performances of numerous yuletide classics sung by him and by...
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1968
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Lucy Carter
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1968
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Lucy Carter
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1968
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This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with...
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Helen North
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1968
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1964
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Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his...
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Angela Ballantine
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1962
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Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic...
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Kitty Weaver
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1960
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Originally aired as an NBC special on Sunday, January 10, 1960, this program went head-to-head with the hit Ed Sullivan Show...
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1960
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Lucy Ricardo
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1957
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Several changes occurred in the I Love Lucy format during the series' sixth and final season on the air. For one thing,...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1956
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Susan Vega
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1956
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I Love Lucy boasted a new sponsor (General Foods, taking over from Philip Morris Cigarettes), a new director, and new...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1955
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Even though I Love Lucy was still America's top-rated series as it entered its fourth season, the producers -- including...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1954
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At the height of their TV fame, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were contracted by MGM to make two theatrical films. The first of...
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Tracy Collini
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1954
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Though it was hard to top the "pregnancy" throughline that permeated the second season of I Love Lucy, the series maintained...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1953
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Dying of curiosity, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) are determined to get a glimpse of their somewhat secretive...
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1952
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America's third most popular TV show during its first season, I Love Lucy skyrocketed to number one during Season Two -- no...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1952
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Hoping to force Lucille Ball into breaking her contract, Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn assigned her to the...
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Narah
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1951
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Arguably the most popular TV situation comedy in the known world (and possibly a few worlds beyond that!), I Love Lucy has...
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1951
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By the time the first 35 episodes of I Love Lucy had been shown on CBS' Monday night lineup, virtually everybody in America...
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Lucy Ricardo
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1951
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Agatha Floud
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1950
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Sally Elliot
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1950
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Gladys O'Neill
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1949
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Ellen Grant
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1949
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No relation to the 1937 screwball comedy of the same name, Easy Living is a film about the world of professional sports....
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Anne
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1949
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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Sandra Carpenter
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1947
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Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret...
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Margaret Weldon
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1947
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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The Princess
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1946
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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Kay Williams
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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Gladys Benton
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1946
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This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private...
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Kathleen
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1946
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One of two con-artists ends up arrested and given five days of freedom before he must go to jail. This comedy chronicles...
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Ricki Woodner
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1946
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In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a...
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Kitty Trimble
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1945
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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Julie Hampton
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1944
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Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation....
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Herself
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1943
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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May Daly/Madame Du Barry
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1943
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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Christine Larson
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1942
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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Terry
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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Gloria
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1942
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The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick...
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1941
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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Julie Patterson
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1941
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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Clara Hinklin/Mercedes Vasquez
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1940
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Bubbles/Tiger Lily White
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1940
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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Connie Casey
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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Joan Grant
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1940
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Lucy
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1939
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Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star"...
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Peggy Nolan
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1939
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Lucille Ball plays young starlet Sandra Sand in That's Right -- You're Wrong, the 1939 musical comedy directed by...
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Sandra Sand
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1939
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According to RKO Radio's publicity folks, Beauty for the Asking was supposed to have been an expose of the lucrative...
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Jean Russell
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1939
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Another worthwhile entry from the RKO Radio B-picture division, 12 Crowded Hours stars stalwart Richard Dix as crime-busting...
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Paula Sanders
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1939
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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Carol Meely
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1938
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Lucille Ball landed her first starring comedy role in the mile-a-minute farce The Affairs of Annabel. Lucy of course plays...
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Annabel
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1938
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Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz' Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about...
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Christine Marlowe
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1938
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1938
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Zany actress Annabel goes on a promotional tour in this lively comedy, the second in the Annabel series. During her tour,...
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Annabel Allison
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1938
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The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by...
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Nancy Fleming
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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Miriam
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1938
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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1937
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1937
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Guy Kibbee, moviedom's archetypal small-town bigshot, stars in RKO Radio's Don't Tell the Wife. On this occasion, Kibbee,...
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1937
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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Stagestruck Vermont girl Jenny Yates (Anne Shirley) manages to land a job with a ragtag stock company. This she does over the...
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1936
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In this homespun comedy, a farm family in Iowa lead a pastoral existence until old Ma decides that they must pull up stakes...
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1936
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Maxwell Anderson combined the Sacco-Vanzetti story with elements of the still-unsolved disappearance of Judge Crater, and the...
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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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Claire Williams
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1936
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1936
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1936
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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In this melodramatic comedy a carnival puppeteer must cope with the death of his wife who expired while birthing his...
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1935
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In their fourth two-reeler for Columbia, the Three Stooges are mistaken for college football heroes by a beautiful...
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Daisy Simms
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1934
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In this drama, a fighter's fiancee refuses to marry him until he can overcome his insane jealousy. He does and they marry....
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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1934
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The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer's popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life...
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1934
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In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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This drama was written by famed radio announcer Walter Winchell. It chronicles the tragic love between a racketeer and a...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Roland Brown's Blood Money (1933) has lost none of its ability to entertain and startle over the seven decades since its...
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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1933
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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1932
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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1929
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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The Lucy Show undergoes a number of major changes as the series enters it fourth season. For one thing, the show is now...
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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Lucille Ball proves that her two-year absence from network television has not in any way blunted her comic expertise as...
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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Season three of The Lucy Show is something of a watershed for the series. To be sure, most of the episodes adhere to the...
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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Although actress/producer Lucille Ball had gone through her usual song and dance with CBS by insisting that the...
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Executive Producer, Lucy Carmichael
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