This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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1946
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RKO's prefabricated comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney came to an abrupt end with Genius at Work. A slapsticky remake...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Every so often, RKO Radio got the notion to launch a series of annual musical extravaganzas a la MGM's Broadway Melody and...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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Future film producer Ross Hunter heads the cast of Columbia's A Guy, a Gal and a Pal. Hunter is the "guy", serviceman Jimmy...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a run-down burlesque revue run...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs...
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1944
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In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and is...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Female musicians Sally Richards (Jane Frazee) and Sue Ford (Judy Clark) are Beautiful but Broke in this frantic Columbia...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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In this musical, a San Francisco musician encounters the son of an pal. The young man has a real dilemma and asks the advice...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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How could anyone resist a 1940s film starring Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen and Patsy Kelly-even a film as relentlessly...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
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Screen Story
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1942
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James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get...
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Screen Story
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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a husband and wife manage an apartment building owned by the husband's pal. Meanwhile they must...
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1939
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It may sound like a teenage-romance comedy, but Boy Trouble is actually a sentimental effort about middle-aged parents....
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Screen Story
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1939
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In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is in a quandary when he...
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1937
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three...
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1937
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Filmed on location in New York, Sweet Surrender takes place in a variety of landmark locations, including the NBC radio...
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Director, Producer
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1935
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Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1933
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Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1933
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Director
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1930
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A Flask of Fields consists of three short subjects starring the inimitable W.C. Fields. All three will be familiar to Fields...
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1930
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Screen Story
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its...
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Screen Story
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1927
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During the late '20s, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton made a series of comedies for Paramount. Although the studio hyped...
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Screen Story
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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Screen Story
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1927
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Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1927
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Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the...
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Director
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1927
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George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film....
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1926
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1926
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