Jane Withers
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Withers (April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress, model, and singer. Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of 3, Withers was a Young Artist Award–Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s, and probably best known for playing the obnoxious Joy Smythe in the film Bright Eyes, where she paired with Shirley Temple.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 12, 1926
Deathday: August 07, 2021
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Giant
1956-11-08
Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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Youth Will Be Served
1940-11-22
Youth Will Be Served
Overview: A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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Armored Attack!
1957-01-01
Armored Attack!
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Captain Newman, M.D.
1963-12-25
Captain Newman, M.D.
Overview: In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Bright Eyes
1934-12-28
Bright Eyes
Overview: An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Angel's Holiday
1937-06-07
Angel's Holiday
Overview: Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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Paddy O'Day
1936-01-17
Paddy O'Day
Overview: A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Danger Street
1947-06-20
Danger Street
Overview: Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-20
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Ginger
1935-07-04
Ginger
Overview: Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-04
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1939-10-24
Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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The Right Approach
1961-05-17
The Right Approach
Overview: An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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Little Miss Nobody
1936-06-05
Little Miss Nobody
Overview: A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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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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Johnny Doughboy
1942-12-31
Johnny Doughboy
Overview: As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Always in Trouble
1938-10-28
Always in Trouble
Overview: Jane's dad (Tombes) is an oil field worker who comes into a fortune and is then pushed into society by his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Shooting High
1940-04-25
Shooting High
Overview: A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
Genres: Music Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Hollywood Hobbies
1939-05-03
Hollywood Hobbies
Overview: In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-03
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The Good Fairy
1935-02-18
The Good Fairy
Overview: In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-18
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Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
1941-05-29
Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play
Overview: Jane Withers entertains her teenage friends with archery and jitterbug dancing; Cesar Romero and Patricia Morison play backgammon; Rita Hayworth supervises the building of her new home; stars gather at Santa Anita for the San Antonio handicap.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-29
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The North Star
1943-11-04
The North Star
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-04
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
2002-02-06
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
Overview: Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Small Town Deb
1941-11-07
Small Town Deb
Overview: Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-07
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Chicken Wagon Family
1939-08-10
Chicken Wagon Family
Overview: Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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This Is the Life
1935-10-07
This Is the Life
Overview: A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-07
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993-08-31
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Overview: There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-31
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My Best Gal
1944-03-28
My Best Gal
Overview: A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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Faces in the Fog
1944-11-30
Faces in the Fog
Overview: Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-30
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Affairs of Geraldine
1946-11-18
Affairs of Geraldine
Overview: When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Pepper
1936-08-08
Pepper
Overview: Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-08
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Boy Friend
1939-05-19
Boy Friend
Overview: A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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The Arizona Wildcat
1939-02-11
The Arizona Wildcat
Overview: In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbery.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Keep Smiling
1938-08-12
Keep Smiling
Overview: Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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Rascals
1938-05-20
Rascals
Overview: A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Golden Hoofs
1941-02-14
Golden Hoofs
Overview: A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-14
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Checkers
1937-12-08
Checkers
Overview: A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-08
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The Mad Martindales
1942-05-15
The Mad Martindales
Overview: A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941-12-05
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Overview: Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933-07-22
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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All Together Now
1975-02-05
All Together Now
Overview: Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Young America
1942-02-06
Young America
Overview: Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Her First Beau
1941-05-08
Her First Beau
Overview: 15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-08
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Peeks at Hollywood
1946-01-26
Peeks at Hollywood
Overview: Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-26
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The Holy Terror
1937-02-05
The Holy Terror
Overview: Corky is the daughter of an officer in the Naval Air Service who, while putting on musical shows for the troops, uncovers a group of spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Imitation of Life
1934-11-23
Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996-06-21
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to Frollo's tyranny.
Genres: Drama Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-21
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A Very Young Lady
1941-06-27
A Very Young Lady
Overview: A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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45 Fathers
1937-11-26
45 Fathers
Overview: An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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The Girl from Avenue A
1940-08-09
The Girl from Avenue A
Overview: A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Wild and Woolly
1937-07-19
Wild and Woolly
Overview: Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
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Can This Be Dixie?
1936-11-13
Can This Be Dixie?
Overview: A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
2000-01-01
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
Overview: Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as Grauman's Chinese Theater, it immediately drew attention from the public, and, more importantly, from those in the entertainment industry. Hosted by Raquel Welch.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
1974-02-04
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Overview: Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Gentle Julia
1936-04-10
Gentle Julia
Overview: A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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The Heart is a Rebel
1958-01-01
The Heart is a Rebel
Overview: While struggling with their son’s serious illness, a young couple experiences conflict when her husband does not understand the wife’s acceptance of Christ. THE HEART IS A REBEL features the beloved Ethel Waters, and is set against Billy Graham’s historic 1957 New York City Crusade, with color scenes of the Crusade at Madison Square Garden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
2009-01-01
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Overview: A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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