One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise...
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1979
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Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by...
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Mrs. Schmauss
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1976
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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1968
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Though the title of this episode refers to the young lady played by Sheila Wells, the emphasis is on George's father,...
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1968
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This drama centers on life in a small college. The hero is a folk singer from the backwoods. Because he saved the dean's...
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Mrs. Fitts
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1967
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American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such...
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1966
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Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, takes the 75 dollars he owes her,...
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Mac
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1964
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Juror #1
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1962
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A navy jet piloted by Captain Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and carrying an enlisted man (Troy Donahue) has already taken...
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1960
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four...
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1960
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Nehemiah Persoff, who appeared in the premiere Untouchables episode as mob accountant Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, returns to...
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1960
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On a cold and blizzardy night, a man named Lorca (Ricardo Montalban) saunters into the Last Chance Saloon in the Western town...
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1960
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Hazel
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1943
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My Son, the Hero was a rare comedy from the PRC studio mills-and rarer still, it was directed by melodrama specialist...
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Gerty
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1943
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A young woman and her two buddies team up to run her newly inherited trucking company. In this comedy, the trouble begins...
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1943
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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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Bebe
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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Helga
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1942
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Jinx
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1941
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The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final...
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1941
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Patsy
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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1940
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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Kitty
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1939
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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Peggy O'Brien
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1938
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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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1938
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Rosa, the Cook
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1938
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After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid,...
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Katie Callahan
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1938
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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Sadie Day
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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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Nellie Moore
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1937
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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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Patsy Kane
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1937
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Kitty
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1937
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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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Bessie Winters
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1936
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In this drama, a vicious valet plans to kill another servant after he learns that she has secretly married his boss's son. ~...
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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Gracie
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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Molly Kelly
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1936
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In the last of the Hal Roach Studio "girlfriend" two-reel comedies, Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti go on a rugged camping trip...
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1936
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Fitz
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1936
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This below-average two-reel comedy from producer Hal Roach starred Patsy Kelly and Pert Kelton as unlucky door-to-door...
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1936
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This fine Hal Roach Studio two-reel comedy marked the debut of Lyda Roberti as the new partner of Roach regular Patsy Kelly....
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1936
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The final Thelma Todd-Patsy Kelly two-reel comedy All-American Toothache was a rather obvious farce in which Thelma...
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1936
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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A sharp satire of small-town politics, Thanks a Million stars Dick Powell as the leading man of a travelling musical show....
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Phoebe Mason
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1935
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Daphne O'Connor
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1935
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Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical. In keeping with Jolson's...
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Irma
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1935
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This mildly amusing two-reel comedy was released only a month before Thelma Todd's mysterious death. Todd and Patsy Kelly are...
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1935
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The party's barely begun for mild-mannered CPA Bruce (Stuart Erwin); browbeaten by his lazy family and his domineering boss,...
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Mabel
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1934
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Directed by Hal Roach stalwart Gus Meins, this typical two-reel comedy starring the team of Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly...
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1934
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1934
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In their first comedy two-reeler of 1934, the female answer to Laurel and Hardy, Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly, once again...
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1934
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Mimi
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1934
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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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1934
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Kitty Lennihan
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1934
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In their first two-reel comedy, the team of blonde, glamorous Thelma Todd and dowdy Patsy Kelly win an old jalopy in a...
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1933
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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1933
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