Irene Ryan
Biography: Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes Bob Hope laugh." After being cast as Granny, she became famous overnight. When the Hillbillies ended, she co-starred in the Broadway musical 'Pippin' with Ben Vereen. Unfortunately, despite wonderful reviews from critics, Ryan took ill, was discovered to have an inoperable brain tumor and died soon after at the age of 70.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 17, 1902
Deathday: April 26, 1973
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Peaceful Relations
1936-06-19
Peaceful Relations
Overview: An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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The Woman on the Beach
1947-06-07
The Woman on the Beach
Overview: A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946-02-15
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
1966-05-01
Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
Overview: A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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That Night with You
1945-09-28
That Night with You
Overview: In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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That's the Spirit
1945-06-01
That's the Spirit
Overview: A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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San Diego I Love You
1944-09-29
San Diego I Love You
Overview: A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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Arch of Triumph
1948-02-17
Arch of Triumph
Overview: In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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Bonzo Goes to College
1952-09-01
Bonzo Goes to College
Overview: When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952-12-24
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Overview: Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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Half Angel
1951-05-05
Half Angel
Overview: Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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Spring Reunion
1957-03-01
Spring Reunion
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Heading for Heaven
1947-12-06
Heading for Heaven
Overview: A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't long to live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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Meet Me After the Show
1951-08-15
Meet Me After the Show
Overview: A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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Melody Parade
1943-08-27
Melody Parade
Overview: The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948-07-16
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Sarong Girl
1943-06-11
Sarong Girl
Overview: A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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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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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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Hot Rhythm
1944-04-22
Hot Rhythm
Overview: Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-22
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Mighty Joe Young
1949-07-27
Mighty Joe Young
Overview: A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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One Big Happy Family
1935-11-15
One Big Happy Family
Overview: When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Wacky Family
1936-09-04
The Wacky Family
Overview: Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his employees live. But Irene's wacky family----Ma, Pa and Brother---have moved in with them and converted the home into a hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Just Plain Folks
1936-03-13
Just Plain Folks
Overview: In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when Irene and all of her family walk out of the house and leave him all alone. This happens after two of her cousins stage a wrestling match, and a food-fight at the dinner table.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Desire in the Dust
1960-10-10
Desire in the Dust
Overview: Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-10
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The Skipper Surprised His Wife
1950-06-29
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Overview: A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-29
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My Dear Secretary
1948-11-05
My Dear Secretary
Overview: A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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The Big Courtship
1937-02-19
The Big Courtship
Overview: An Educational Pictures short starring Tim and Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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His Pest Girl
1937-04-30
His Pest Girl
Overview: Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The Sultan's Daughter
1943-12-16
The Sultan's Daughter
Overview: A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
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O, My Darling Clementine
1943-12-31
O, My Darling Clementine
Overview: "Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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The Beautiful Cheat
1945-07-20
The Beautiful Cheat
Overview: The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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There's a Girl in My Heart
1949-12-19
There's a Girl in My Heart
Overview: A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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Melody for Three
1941-06-19
Melody for Three
Overview: Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career--he believes it would be best for the boy to have his parents back together, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-19
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Rockabilly Baby
1957-10-30
Rockabilly Baby
Overview: The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social leader Mrs. Wellington, who supports her idea for a town youth center, and she is aided by Tom Griffith, the high school principal. At the town's annual picnic, to which Eleanor has bought a band, the town busy-body Eunice reveals what she had learned from Eleanor's past.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Hold Your Temper
1943-02-05
Hold Your Temper
Overview: When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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Ricochet Romance
1954-11-01
Ricochet Romance
Overview: Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Little Iodine
1946-10-19
Little Iodine
Overview: Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-19
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
1949-01-19
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Overview: A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-19
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Will You Stop?
1937-09-10
Will You Stop?
Overview: Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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