Renie Riano
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Renie Riano (August 7, 1899 – July 3, 1971) was an English-born American actress who, with the exception of the Jiggs and Maggie comedies, had minor roles in 1940s-1950s films. She was the daughter of Irene Riano (1871–1940), the daughter of Joseph Rice, a Philadelphia theatre owner, who, in the early 1890s, married vaudeville acrobat Robert Riano (b. 1867, Yonkers, New York – 1909, New York City). Irene Riano was a stage actress, the sole female member of vaudeville's popular Four Rianos acrobatic act, eccentric acrobat act which toured the world in vaudeville, variety and music halls, and the mother of actress Renie Riano. Irene was the daughter of Joseph Rice, a Philadelphia theatre owner. In the early 1890s, she married vaudeville acrobat Robert Riano (b. 1867, Yonkers, New York – 1909, New York City) who organised the famous "Four Rianos" eccentric acrobat act which toured the world in vaudeville, variety and music halls.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 06, 1899
Deathday: July 03, 1971
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So Goes My Love
1946-05-01
So Goes My Love
Overview: Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-01
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Tovarich
1937-12-25
Tovarich
Overview: When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-25
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Nancy Drew… Detective
1938-11-19
Nancy Drew… Detective
Overview: After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-19
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Club Havana
1945-11-23
Club Havana
Overview: A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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You Belong to Me
1941-10-22
You Belong to Me
Overview: A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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Whispering Ghosts
1942-05-17
Whispering Ghosts
Overview: A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-17
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Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
1962-10-28
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
Overview: Two young brothers secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics disrupt the quiet town of Gatesville and its unsuspecting residents.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-28
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Kit Carson
1940-08-30
Kit Carson
Overview: Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Remedy for Riches
1940-11-29
Remedy for Riches
Overview: A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948-12-12
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Overview: Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-12
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A Song for Miss Julie
1945-02-19
A Song for Miss Julie
Overview: Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-19
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Man from Music Mountain
1943-10-30
Man from Music Mountain
Overview: Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-30
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High School
1940-01-26
High School
Overview: A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Men Are Such Fools
1938-06-15
Men Are Such Fools
Overview: Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband. She rises through the ranks, becoming a copywriter, and attracts the attention of Jimmy, an amorous coworker who wants to marry her. But Jimmy is jealous of Linda's career and of Harry, a radio executive who works with Linda, and their marriage gets off to a very rough start.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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The Time of Your Life
1948-09-03
The Time of Your Life
Overview: Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Outside of Paradise
1938-02-08
Outside of Paradise
Overview: Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-08
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Bikini Beach
1964-07-22
Bikini Beach
Overview: A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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Pajama Party
1964-11-11
Pajama Party
Overview: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Fireball 500
1966-06-07
Fireball 500
Overview: Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-07
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The Family Jewels
1965-07-01
The Family Jewels
Overview: A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
A Little Bit of Heaven
Overview: A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937-09-17
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Overview: A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-17
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Tell No Tales
1939-06-12
Tell No Tales
Overview: A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-12
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Spring Madness
1938-11-11
Spring Madness
Overview: Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Wings of the Navy
1939-02-11
Wings of the Navy
Overview: Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939-02-18
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Overview: While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Tail Spin
1939-02-19
Tail Spin
Overview: Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
Wife, Husband and Friend
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939-04-07
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Overview: In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939-06-17
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Overview: When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-17
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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Day-time Wife
1939-11-24
Day-time Wife
Overview: When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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Honeymoon in Bali
1939-09-29
Honeymoon in Bali
Overview: Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Affectionately Yours
1941-05-10
Affectionately Yours
Overview: A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940-01-11
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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Winter Wonderland
1946-05-12
Winter Wonderland
Overview: A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-12
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Bridal Suite
1939-05-26
Bridal Suite
Overview: A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940-01-12
The Shop Around the Corner
Overview: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-12
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3 Is a Family
1944-11-23
3 Is a Family
Overview: Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939-09-09
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Overview: Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-09
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There's One Born Every Minute
1942-06-26
There's One Born Every Minute
Overview: A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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Bad Bascomb
1946-05-26
Bad Bascomb
Overview: A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Li'l Abner
1940-11-09
Li'l Abner
Overview: Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Clipped Wings
1953-08-14
Clipped Wings
Overview: Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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You're a Sweetheart
1937-12-26
You're a Sweetheart
Overview: A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-26
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Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950-04-23
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Overview: Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine. As usual, Maggie spends her time trying to climb the frontier social ladder, while down-to-earth Jiggs is more interested in finding a plate of corned beef and cabbage.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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Disputed Passage
1939-10-25
Disputed Passage
Overview: A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-25
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They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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Bringing Up Father
1946-11-23
Bringing Up Father
Overview: Based on the comic strip by George McManus about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. In this film, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in evicting an undesirable tenant, who turns out to be Jiggs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-23
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The Road to Reno
1938-08-01
The Road to Reno
Overview: An opera singer travels to Reno to divorce her rancher husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
1949-08-27
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
Overview: With Maggie laid low with sneezing fits, Jiggs spends his time listening to radio trivia contests. Maggie, an inveterate social climber, wants to join the prestigious Northchester Hunt Club, and sends them a check for the $38,000 membership fee. When Jiggs finds out, he manages--after a struggle with Maggie--to take care of the check. Consoling himself at his favorite bar, he's convinced by his drinking buddies that the way to make up with Maggie is to buy her a racehorse that is coming up for auction. He does, only to discover that a doctor has told Maggie that her sneezing fits are due to a rare allergy she has--to horses. Complications ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-27
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Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
Take It or Leave It
Overview: A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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Adam Had Four Sons
1941-03-27
Adam Had Four Sons
Overview: Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-27
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Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Ice-Capades
Overview: Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-19
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River Gang
1945-09-21
River Gang
Overview: An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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Jiggs and Maggie in Society
1947-12-12
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
Overview: Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
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Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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Jam Session
1944-04-13
Jam Session
Overview: A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-13
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Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940-03-08
The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Four's a Crowd
1938-08-04
Four's a Crowd
Overview: A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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