Lurene Tuttle
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907, Pleasant Lake, Indiana - May 28, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress, who made transitions from vaudeville to radio, to films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's most versatile actresses. Often appearing in 15 shows a week, comedies, dramas, thrillers, soap operas, and crime dramas, and she became known as the First Lady of Radio. Heaven Only Knows (1947) was her first film. She went on to roles in other films such as Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), as the wife of Sheriff Chambers. In Don't Bother to Knock (1952) she portrayed a mother who lets a disturbed Marilyn Monroe babysit her daughter. The next year she appeared again with Marilyn in Niagara, as Mrs. Kettering. She had a rare starring role in Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960). She played Grandma Pusser in the original Walking Tall film trilogy, and also appeared in horror films such as The Manitou (1978), starring Tony Curtis. Her final film role was in the 1983 film Testament. Tuttle became a familiar face to millions of television viewers with more than 100 appearances from 1950 to 1986, often in the role of an inquisitive busybody. On television and in films, Tuttle streamlined herself into a pattern of roles between wise, loving wives/mothers or bristling matrons. She was familiar to the early television audience as wife/mother Lavinia (Vinnie) Day in Life with Father (1953–1955). Columnist Hedda Hopper called the selection of Leon Ames as Father and Tuttle as Mother "what I consider 22 carat casting with two all-Americans." Description above from the Wikipedia article Lurene Tuttle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: August 20, 1907
Deathday: May 28, 1986
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Known For
Psycho
1960-06-22
Psycho
Overview: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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The Fortune Cookie
1966-10-19
The Fortune Cookie
Overview: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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Critic's Choice
1963-02-24
Critic's Choice
Overview: Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Don't Bother to Knock
1952-07-18
Don't Bother to Knock
Overview: An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-18
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948-03-25
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Overview: An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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The Crash of Flight 401
1978-10-29
The Crash of Flight 401
Overview: True story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines, Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-29
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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
1966-01-20
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Overview: Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Genres: Comedy Family Mystery Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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The Manitou
1978-04-28
The Manitou
Overview: A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951-08-08
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Overview: A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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The Whip Hand
1951-10-01
The Whip Hand
Overview: A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Room for One More
1952-01-10
Room for One More
Overview: Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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24 Hour Psycho
1993-01-01
24 Hour Psycho
Overview: 24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24. As a result it lasts for exactly 24 hours, rather than the original 109 minutes. The film was an important work in Gordon's early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as "recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light."
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Niagara
1953-01-26
Niagara
Overview: Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-26
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Human Experiments
1979-10-19
Human Experiments
Overview: A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Walking Tall Part II
1975-09-28
Walking Tall Part II
Overview: The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-28
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Down and Dirty Duck
1974-07-01
Down and Dirty Duck
Overview: Willard, a mild mannered insurance adjuster, teams up with a foul-mouthed fowl who takes Willard on a surreal quest to become less uptight - and possibly get laid in the process.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-01
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Slander
1957-01-18
Slander
Overview: A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-18
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1960-02-03
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Overview: Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Parts: The Clonus Horror
1979-08-01
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Overview: An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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Never Wave at a WAC
1953-01-28
Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Nightmare in the Sun
1965-03-06
Nightmare in the Sun
Overview: A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981-07-09
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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Give a Girl a Break
1953-11-13
Give a Girl a Break
Overview: When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced in the newspapers, throngs of hopefuls show up. The revue's musical composer, Leo Belney, champions ballerina Joanna Moss, while gofer Bob Dowdy is enchanted by novice Suzy Doolittle. Then producer Felix Jordan persuades Ted's former dance partner, Madelyn Corlan, to come out of retirement to try out, much to Ted's great discomfort.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Goodbye, My Fancy
1951-05-19
Goodbye, My Fancy
Overview: Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-19
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The Glass Slipper
1955-03-24
The Glass Slipper
Overview: Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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Walking Tall
1973-02-22
Walking Tall
Overview: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Law and Order
1976-05-06
Law and Order
Overview: Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-06
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall
1977-08-31
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Overview: It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Sincerely Yours
1955-11-05
Sincerely Yours
Overview: He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-05
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953-08-14
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Overview: Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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White Mama
1980-03-05
White Mama
Overview: A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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For the Love of It
1980-09-26
For the Love of It
Overview: An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Shooting Stars
1983-07-28
Shooting Stars
Overview: Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04
Sweet Smell of Success
Overview: New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981-10-06
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Overview: Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-06
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Shooting Stars
1983-07-28
Shooting Stars
Overview: Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Testament
1983-11-04
Testament
Overview: It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
1980-11-25
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
Overview: Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a retirement community. She meets Jack Pumpkinhead, The Hungry Tiger, and Tic Toc (sic), and must stop the evil Tyrone the Terrible Toy Tinkerer (looking suspiciously like John R. Neil's depiction of the Nome King), who brings the balloon to life.
Genres: Fantasy Family TV Movie Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-25
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Carlton Your Doorman
1980-05-21
Carlton Your Doorman
Overview: Rhoda's camera-shy doorman gets his own special in which we see his daily habits, including flirting with joggers and making the rounds of local watering holes.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-21
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Evil Town
1987-06-02
Evil Town
Overview: A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Dr. Shagetz
1975-01-01
Dr. Shagetz
Overview: Passing through a small town, two young hippie couples stumble upon a town where the old folks all act strange and even stranger things are happening at the local clinic. Filming was completed in 1973 but this original version of the film was barely released two years later under several different titles. It was shot as God Bless Grandpa and Grandma but posters were made for the titles Dr. Shagetz and God Bless Dr. Shagetz, with the "Bless" crossed over and replaced with "Damn."
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Unchained Goddess
1958-02-12
The Unchained Goddess
Overview: A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology involved in predicting them and warning about the threat of global climate change.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Heaven Only Knows
1947-09-12
Heaven Only Knows
Overview: Also released as Montana Mike, Heaven Only Knows is an offbeat western with fantasy overtones. Hard-bitten gambling boss Brian Donlevy rules his frontier community with brawn and bullets. To his dismay, Donlevy discovers that he has a guardian angel (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot. The angel has been sent from Above to save Donlevy's soul, and to that end encourages the one-time villain to squire a minister's daughter (Jorja Curtwright) rather than his usual dance-hall girls. Donlevy is also given tips on winning against his enemies without resorting to gunplay. The gambler finally redeems himself with Heaven by rescuing the angel from a lynch mob (how can you lynch an angel?) Heaven Only Knows deserves an "E" for Effort for bringing a fresh twist to the venerable western genre.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Untamed Youth
1957-03-15
Untamed Youth
Overview: Two sisters are arrested for skinny-dipping on their way to Los Angeles and are sentenced to labor work on a farm.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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Macbeth
1948-10-01
Macbeth
Overview: A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Live Again, Die Again
1974-02-16
Live Again, Die Again
Overview: After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Mrs. Sundance
1974-01-15
Mrs. Sundance
Overview: The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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Tom, Dick and Harry
1941-06-13
Tom, Dick and Harry
Overview: Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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A Life of Her Own
1950-09-01
A Life of Her Own
Overview: A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Homecoming
1948-04-29
Homecoming
Overview: Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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The Restless Ones
1965-12-02
The Restless Ones
Overview: A reporter doing a story on a Christian pastor who ministers to troubled teens doesn't realize that his own son is getting mixed up with a disturbed young girl and that both of them are headed for trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Three Lives
1953-09-17
Three Lives
Overview: A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1934-05-04
Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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