Combining familiar movie and TV images with rare, seldom-seen backstage footage, this PBS documentary traces the life and...
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1998
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When a gloomy listener places a call to Frasier's radio show, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) flippantly advises the woman to cheer...
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1994
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Made for Canadian television, Lost is a sometimes grueling tale of courage and perserverance. The film is based on the true...
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1986
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1983
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The long-running Aaron Spelling TV series Fantasy Island was launched with a two-hour pilot film, which originally aired...
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1977
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Big-game hunter David Farrow (Roy Thinnes) is hired to track down bank robbery suspect Clel Bocock (William Smith), who has...
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1976
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Predating the Oscar-nominated theatrical feature Apollo 13 by over two decades, the made-for-TV Houston, We've Got a Problem...
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1974
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Joshua Cabe (Buddy Ebsen) is a trapper in the old west. He hopes to set up his own homestead, but new government laws won't...
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1972
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With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an...
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Nancy Walker
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1970
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Big-game hunter Roy Thinnes is hired to track down bank robbery suspect William Smith. While on the job, Thinnes becomes...
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1969
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In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to...
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Heather Halloran
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1967
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Rosie! is directly based upon Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman, which was itself based upon a French play by Philippe...
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Daphne Shaw
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1967
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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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Amy Franklin
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1966
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress pays her bills by working as a maid for various households. One of her...
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Joan Howell
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1965
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Cynthia Dulaine
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1964
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This time around, Tammy, played by Sandra Dee, becomes a nurse's aid to care for an old rich woman and causes a commotion....
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Tammy Tyree
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1963
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In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired...
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Mollie Michaelson
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1963
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This lightweight, nearly zero-gravity comedy by director Henry Levin relies on a novel by a male writer and a script by...
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Chantal Stacey
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1962
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Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and...
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Juliet Moulsworth
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1961
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In this emotional romance, the young backwoods girl Tammy lives in a houseboat on the river. She is very sad because she...
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Tammy Tyree
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1961
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Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where...
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Sandy Stevens
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1961
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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Catherine Cabot
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1960
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In this comical western, a curmudgeonly fur-trapper is hurt by an enraged bear and must send his nephew to town with his...
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Rosalie Stocker
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1959
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The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and...
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Molly Jorgenson
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1959
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Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a...
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Pat Beasley
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1959
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American live-action footage frames this animated feature from the USSR, and the cartoon characters' voices are also dubbed...
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1959
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1959
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Teenager Francie Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is known to her surfing friends as "Gidget" or a "girl midget" (she is kinda on the...
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Gidget (Frances Lawrence)
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1959
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This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling...
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Susie (older)
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1959
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The Reluctant Debutante is a vintage example of the sort of elegant, witty "polite" comedy that Hollywood used to pull off so...
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Jane Broadbent
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1958
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Small-minded small town 1950's mores threaten a youthful romance in this sudsy melodrama based on the play Teach Me How to...
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Melinda Grant
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1958
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1957
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