Tommy Noonan
Biography: Tommy Noonan (born Thomas Noone ( April 29, 1921 – April 24, 1968) was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a 65 projects including high-profile films as well as B movies from the 1940s through the 1960s and he made several tv appearances also; he is best known for his supporting performances as Gus Esmond, wealthy fiancé of Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe), in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and as musician Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born (1954). In addition to starring alongside Marilyn Monroe, Noonan is also noted for having played love interests to Jayne Mansfield in Promises..... Promises! (1963) and Mamie Van Doren in 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (Which he also directed) (1964), making him the only actor to play love interests to the 3 former who were dubbed the 3 Ms of Golden Age Hollywood.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 29, 1922
Deathday: April 24, 1968
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953-07-14
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Adam's Rib
1949-11-18
Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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I Shot Jesse James
1949-02-26
I Shot Jesse James
Overview: Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-26
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Bundle of Joy
1956-12-12
Bundle of Joy
Overview: Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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The Set-Up
1949-03-29
The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Promises! Promises!
1963-08-01
Promises! Promises!
Overview: After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-01
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Violent Saturday
1955-04-01
Violent Saturday
Overview: Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Open Secret
1948-02-14
Open Secret
Overview: A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that anti-semites are behind the disappearance.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-14
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The Bamboo Blonde
1946-07-15
The Bamboo Blonde
Overview: A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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The Best Things in Life Are Free
1956-09-28
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Overview: Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-28
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Trapped
1949-09-27
Trapped
Overview: Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-27
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FBI Girl
1951-11-04
FBI Girl
Overview: G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-04
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The Girl Most Likely
1958-02-05
The Girl Most Likely
Overview: Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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How To Be Very, Very Popular
1955-07-22
How To Be Very, Very Popular
Overview: Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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I Cheated the Law
1949-03-04
I Cheated the Law
Overview: An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt
1964-05-29
3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt
Overview: An out-of-work method actor is hired by a male model, an ecdysiast, and a car salesman who live together to save money. They want the actor to listen to their problems and go see a psychiatrist, so they can get counseling for cheap. The psychiatrist is intrigued by the split personalities indicated by the three separate sets of problems presented by the actor, and soon producers are climbing out of the woodwork trying to buy the rights to the film, while the actor is having trouble keeping his act together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-29
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Starlift
1951-12-14
Starlift
Overview: To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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The Rookie
1959-12-01
The Rookie
Overview: A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the only new recruit at basic training camp. Military comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
1967-01-01
Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
Overview: Darby Clyde Fenster and Jerry Martin are a pair of penniless nincompoop-drifters who hop a freight train on their way to Florida. Our intrepid heroes find themselves facing one comic situation after another in this gloriously loopy Southern fried comedy-with-music.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986-04-19
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Overview: Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Bedlam
1946-05-10
Bedlam
Overview: London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-10
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The Truth About Murder
1946-04-01
The Truth About Murder
Overview: A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-01
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Jungle Patrol
1948-11-01
Jungle Patrol
Overview: Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Ding Dong Williams
1946-04-15
Ding Dong Williams
Overview: Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-15
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The Return of Jesse James
1950-08-01
The Return of Jesse James
Overview: Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Follow That Music
1947-01-31
Follow That Music
Overview: Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-31
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Born to Kill
1947-04-30
Born to Kill
Overview: A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-30
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A Likely Story
1947-04-18
A Likely Story
Overview: A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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The Ambassador's Daughter
1956-07-26
The Ambassador's Daughter
Overview: While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-26
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Criminal Court
1946-11-15
Criminal Court
Overview: A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-15
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Holiday Rhythm
1950-10-30
Holiday Rhythm
Overview: A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-30
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The Big Fix
1947-04-19
The Big Fix
Overview: Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-19
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From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Beware of Redheads
1945-09-14
Beware of Redheads
Overview: A beautiful redhead (Myrna Dell) comes knocking on Leon's door demanding the return of a compact dropped accidently in his pocket while they were dancing. But his wife (Dorothy Granger) has already discovered the compact and thinks Leon bought it as a gift for her. And then, to no great surprise, the redhead's jealous husband makes an appearance. Leon, before he is cleared of any hanky-panky with the redhead, nets two black eyes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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The Big Beef
1945-10-19
The Big Beef
Overview: Edgar invites his boss home for a steak dinner, but the steak hasn't arrived. A pushy book salesman does arrives and this causes Edgar a few problems and several slow-burns. The double-take slow-burn comes when the meat arrives in the form of a live, 1000-pound steer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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Swingin' Along
1961-04-16
Swingin' Along
Overview: An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-16
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The Fabulous Joe
1947-08-28
The Fabulous Joe
Overview: Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Riff-Raff
1947-06-28
Riff-Raff
Overview: A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-28
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Step by Step
1946-08-23
Step by Step
Overview: Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-23
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Crack-Up
1946-09-06
Crack-Up
Overview: Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Dick Tracy
1945-12-01
Dick Tracy
Overview: Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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