Stephen Dunne
Biography: Francis Michael Dunne (January 13, 1918 – September 2, 1977) was an American actor, radio personality and disc jockey. He was active on television and in films from 1945–73, and was also credited as Steve Dunn, Michael Dunne, Stephan Dunne, and Steve Dunne.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 13, 1918
Deathday: September 02, 1977
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The Underworld Story
1950-07-26
The Underworld Story
Overview: A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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Shock
1946-02-01
Shock
Overview: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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The Dark Past
1948-12-22
The Dark Past
Overview: A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949-10-20
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
Overview: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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Superdad
1973-12-14
Superdad
Overview: A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-14
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Kazan
1949-07-13
Kazan
Overview: Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Above and Beyond
1953-01-02
Above and Beyond
Overview: The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Rusty Saves a Life
1949-02-03
Rusty Saves a Life
Overview: Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-03
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The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949-03-15
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-15
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The Son of Rusty
1947-08-07
The Son of Rusty
Overview: The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran comes to town, and Danny and his friends learn that he had spent time in a military stockade for an infraction of a regulation. Danny's friends spread the story all over town. The seriousness of the minor infraction grows with each telling. As a sidebar, Rusty finds a mate and becomes a father.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-07
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Hand of Death
1962-03-01
Hand of Death
Overview: A scientist spills a new serum in his lab, accidentally inhales its fumes, and turns into a murderous monster who kills anyone he touches.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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Mother Wore Tights
1947-08-20
Mother Wore Tights
Overview: In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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I Married a Woman
1958-03-01
I Married a Woman
Overview: Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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Suddenly Single
1971-10-19
Suddenly Single
Overview: A newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-19
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Junior Miss
1945-06-16
Junior Miss
Overview: A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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The WAC From Walla Walla
1952-10-10
The WAC From Walla Walla
Overview: An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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The Big Sombrero
1949-04-19
The Big Sombrero
Overview: Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-19
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Doll Face
1945-12-31
Doll Face
Overview: Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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The Return of October
1948-10-26
The Return of October
Overview: A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Lady Possessed
1952-01-26
Lady Possessed
Overview: A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-26
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Home Before Dark
1958-11-16
Home Before Dark
Overview: A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-16
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Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
1956-10-02
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Overview: A programmer with a Latin American beat.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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The Gentle Gunman
1952-10-23
The Gentle Gunman
Overview: The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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The Explosive Generation
1961-10-19
The Explosive Generation
Overview: Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-19
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The Death of Me Yet
1971-10-26
The Death of Me Yet
Overview: The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-26
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The Late Liz
1971-09-01
The Late Liz
Overview: Religion changes a woman's attitude towards alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971-06-29
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Overview: When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-29
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Law of the Barbary Coast
1949-07-21
Law of the Barbary Coast
Overview: Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880, and his sister, Julie, enlists the aid of the district attorney, Michael Lodge, in gathering evidence in which to convict the owner of the gambling house of the crime. In order to do so, Julie poses as a dance-hall-girl, and soon finds herself in a dangerous situation.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-21
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The Woman from Tangier
1948-02-12
The Woman from Tangier
Overview: This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. $50,000, in gold, is stolen from the ship's safe and the captain tells the police that the purser was the thief and that he had to kill him in self defense, but the purser must have hidden the money before he got dead. The purser isn't in any position to make a disclaimer. Everybody buys that with the exception of an insurance detective, Shapley, who, along with the audience, suspects the captain of being the thief shows up to investigate further. Written By Les Adams
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
1946-01-24
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Overview: The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-24
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957-04-03
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Overview: In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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When a Girl's Beautiful
1947-09-25
When a Girl's Beautiful
Overview: An advertising man has to come with "the perfect woman" for an ad campaign. He puts together a picture of a woman from a composite of several photos, to get an idea of the kind of woman he should look for. His boss sees it, thinks that it is an actual woman, and orders him to find her and use her in the campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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