Ron Nyman
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Birthday: May 12, 1924
Deathday: September 16, 2000
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There's No Business Like Show Business
1954-12-16
There's No Business Like Show Business
Overview: Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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King Creole
1958-07-02
King Creole
Overview: Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Genres: Drama Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Our Man Flint
1966-01-16
Our Man Flint
Overview: When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-16
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The Long Gray Line
1955-01-04
The Long Gray Line
Overview: The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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Written on the Wind
1956-10-04
Written on the Wind
Overview: Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-04
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Portland Exposé
1957-08-11
Portland Exposé
Overview: The owner of a tavern is pressured by the local mob to go into business with them, and figures it's better all around if he does that rather than cause trouble. However, when he starts to see what kind of place his nice little neighborhood bar is turning into, and when one of the mob's goons tries to rape his daughter, he decides to fight them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-11
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Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
Hell and High Water
Overview: A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-06
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The FBI Story
1959-10-01
The FBI Story
Overview: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Werewolf
1956-07-01
The Werewolf
Overview: The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1963-03-27
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Overview: Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Three for the Show
1955-02-24
Three for the Show
Overview: This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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The Thrill of It All
1963-07-17
The Thrill of It All
Overview: A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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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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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959-11-17
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Overview: A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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Lady in a Cage
1964-06-10
Lady in a Cage
Overview: A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-10
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Pillow Talk
1959-10-07
Pillow Talk
Overview: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Donovan's Reef
1963-06-12
Donovan's Reef
Overview: After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954-12-23
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Overview: A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03
The Seven Year Itch
Overview: With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Auntie Mame
1958-12-04
Auntie Mame
Overview: Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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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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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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How to Frame a Figg
1971-02-01
How to Frame a Figg
Overview: Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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The Love God?
1969-08-01
The Love God?
Overview: Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960-02-03
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Overview: Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961-06-11
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Overview: Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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A Ticklish Affair
1963-08-18
A Ticklish Affair
Overview: A young widow Amy Martin with three young boys is investigated by the Navy after one of her children inadvertently sends out a distress signal in Morse code by the blinds on his upstairs bedroom window. Commander Weedon and crew observe the signal from their ship and investigates. He falls for the young mother and proposes marriage. However, she is reluctant to have her family live out of a suitcase and initially declines. Gramps tries to bring her on board to sail the sea of love with the commander.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-18
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967-06-30
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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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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Fate Is the Hunter
1964-11-08
Fate Is the Hunter
Overview: A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969-10-14
Wake Me When the War Is Over
Overview: During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!
Genres: Comedy War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Myra Breckinridge
1970-06-24
Myra Breckinridge
Overview: Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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Hustle
1975-12-25
Hustle
Overview: The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Wild in the Country
1961-06-15
Wild in the Country
Overview: A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-15
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Son of Flubber
1963-01-16
Son of Flubber
Overview: Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961-07-12
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Overview: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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