Jean Inness
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 18, 1900
Deathday: December 27, 1978
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The Story of Ruth
1960-06-17
The Story of Ruth
Overview: Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942-07-04
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Overview: Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-04
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Mrs. Mike
1949-12-23
Mrs. Mike
Overview: This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with one of the few young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Edge of Doom
1950-08-03
Edge of Doom
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Not a Ladies' Man
1942-05-14
Not a Ladies' Man
Overview: A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-14
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Rosemary's Baby
1968-06-12
Rosemary's Baby
Overview: A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Friendly Persuasion
1956-11-25
Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955-11-23
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Overview: Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Your Cheatin' Heart
1964-11-04
Your Cheatin' Heart
Overview: The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Blondie for Victory
1942-08-06
Blondie for Victory
Overview: Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Wings for the Eagle
1942-07-18
Wings for the Eagle
Overview: Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-18
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The Daring Young Man
1942-10-08
The Daring Young Man
Overview: Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942-05-29
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Overview: A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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The Man with a Cloak
1951-11-27
The Man with a Cloak
Overview: Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951-02-17
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Overview: A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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Pinky
1949-09-28
Pinky
Overview: Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-28
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The Gunfighter
1950-06-23
The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Friendly Persuasion
1956-11-25
Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Reveille with Beverly
1943-02-04
Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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Gun Fever
1958-01-01
Gun Fever
Overview: Luke Ram seeks revenge against the white renegade who lead a Sioux raiding party against his father's stagecoach way station, killing all the inhabitants except himself. He's joined by his mining partner, young Sam Weller, not realizing that they man they seek is Weller's father, in whose gang Sam rode as a young man.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Mister Big
1943-05-28
Mister Big
Overview: Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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The Hard Way
1943-01-13
The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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The Night Runner
1957-04-02
The Night Runner
Overview: A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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The Green-Eyed Blonde
1957-12-14
The Green-Eyed Blonde
Overview: Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-14
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