Jack Carson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Elmer "Jack" Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born, American film actor, with a film career spanning the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Though he was primarily used in supporting roles for comic relief, his work in films such as Mildred Pierce (1945) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) displayed his mastery of "straight" dramatic actor roles as well. He worked for RKO and MGM (cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love Crazy), but most of his memorable work was for Warner Bros. His trademark character was the wisecracking know-it-all, typically and inevitably undone by his own smug cockiness. Carson initially landed bit roles at RKO Radio Pictures in films such as Bringing Up Baby (1938), starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. An early standout role for Carson was as a mock-drunk undercover G-Man opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled Enemy Agent. This led to contract-player status with Warner Brothers shortly thereafter. While there, he was teamed with Dennis Morgan in a number of films, supposedly to compete with Paramount's popular Bing Crosby - Bob Hope Road to … pictures. Most of his work at Warner Brothers was limited to light comedy work with Morgan, and later Doris Day (who in her autobiography would credit Carson as one of her early Hollywood mentors). Critics generally agree that Carson's best work was in Mildred Pierce (1945), where he played the perpetually scheming Wally Fay opposite Joan Crawford in the title role. Also in 1945, he played the role of Harold Pierson, the second husband of Louise Randall, played by Rosalind Russell, in Roughly Speaking. Another role which won accolades for him was as publicist Matt Libby in A Star is Born (1954). One of his last film roles was as the older brother "Gooper" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). His TV appearances, extending into the early 1960s, included The Martha Raye Show, The Guy Mitchell Show, and The Polly Bergen Show in 1957; Alcoa Theatre and Bonanza (Season 1, Ep.9: "Mr. Henry Comstock") in 1959; Thriller ("The Big Blackout") in 1960; and The Twilight Zone (Season 2, Ep. 14: "The Whole Truth") in 1961. On February 8, 1960, Carson received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television and radio industry. The television star is located at 1560 Vine Street, the radio star is at 6361 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1983, after his death, Jack Carson was inducted into the Wisconsin Performing Artists Hall of Fame along with his film pal, Dennis Morgan, who was also from Wisconsin.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 27, 1910
Deathday: January 02, 1963
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944-09-01
Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958-08-29
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Overview: An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Bringing Up Baby
1938-02-18
Bringing Up Baby
Overview: David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Overview: After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-19
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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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Mildred Pierce
1945-10-20
Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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Love Crazy
1941-05-23
Love Crazy
Overview: Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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My Dream Is Yours
1949-04-15
My Dream Is Yours
Overview: Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Overview: Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
Princess O'Rourke
Overview: A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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It's a Great Feeling
1949-08-01
It's a Great Feeling
Overview: A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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Blues in the Night
1941-11-15
Blues in the Night
Overview: A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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The Hard Way
1943-01-13
The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Carefree
1938-09-02
Carefree
Overview: Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941-07-12
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Overview: A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-12
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A Rented Riot
1937-11-07
A Rented Riot
Overview: While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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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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Dangerous When Wet
1953-06-18
Dangerous When Wet
Overview: The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-18
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Romance on the High Seas
1948-06-25
Romance on the High Seas
Overview: Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-25
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943-09-25
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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Destry Rides Again
1939-11-30
Destry Rides Again
Overview: Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Stage Door
1937-10-08
Stage Door
Overview: The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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The Tarnished Angels
1957-11-21
The Tarnished Angels
Overview: In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-21
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Hollywood Canteen
1944-12-15
Hollywood Canteen
Overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Girl in 313
1940-05-31
Girl in 313
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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Having Wonderful Time
1938-07-01
Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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The Saint in New York
1938-05-25
The Saint in New York
Overview: A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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Phffft
1954-11-10
Phffft
Overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Larceny, Inc.
1942-04-24
Larceny, Inc.
Overview: Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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The Male Animal
1942-03-12
The Male Animal
Overview: The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-12
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Bright Leaf
1950-06-16
Bright Leaf
Overview: Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-16
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Make Your Own Bed
1944-06-10
Make Your Own Bed
Overview: Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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The Strawberry Blonde
1941-02-21
The Strawberry Blonde
Overview: Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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The Tattered Dress
1957-03-14
The Tattered Dress
Overview: After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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The Doughgirls
1944-11-25
The Doughgirls
Overview: Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-25
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The Good Humor Man
1950-03-24
The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Wings for the Eagle
1942-07-18
Wings for the Eagle
Overview: Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-18
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The Groom Wore Spurs
1951-03-13
The Groom Wore Spurs
Overview: Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-13
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The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946-12-26
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Overview: The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958-12-23
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Overview: Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-23
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The Bottom of the Bottle
1956-02-01
The Bottom of the Bottle
Overview: An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Queen of the Mob
1940-06-28
Queen of the Mob
Overview: Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Red Garters
1954-02-09
Red Garters
Overview: A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-09
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Roughly Speaking
1945-01-31
Roughly Speaking
Overview: In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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Lucky Partners
1940-08-02
Lucky Partners
Overview: Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Stand-In
1937-10-29
Stand-In
Overview: An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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April Showers
1948-03-27
April Showers
Overview: A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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The Bramble Bush
1960-02-24
The Bramble Bush
Overview: A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947-06-07
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Overview: Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-07
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The Road to Victory
1944-05-18
The Road to Victory
Overview: Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place. Edited down from The Shining Future (1944).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
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This Marriage Business
1938-04-08
This Marriage Business
Overview: A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-08
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Law of the Underworld
1938-05-06
Law of the Underworld
Overview: A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Typhoon
1940-05-16
Typhoon
Overview: Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in order to survive.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-16
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Love Thy Neighbor
1940-12-27
Love Thy Neighbor
Overview: Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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The Children of Alda Nuova
1962-06-05
The Children of Alda Nuova
Overview: Frankie Fane is an American who has been in Rome for about six weeks and is starting to get bored. He hasn't picked up much of the language, and has visited most of the tourist sites in Rome itself. A fellow American suggests that he rent a car and visit some old ruins just a short drive from the city. When he gets there he finds the villagers unfriendly, and a large group of teenagers that constantly follow him around. He quickly realizes that he may be in trouble, but it may also be the case that he gets what he deserves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Too Many Wives
1937-04-09
Too Many Wives
Overview: An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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Maid's Night Out
1938-03-03
Maid's Night Out
Overview: A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1938-10-07
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Overview: A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Go Chase Yourself
1938-04-22
Go Chase Yourself
Overview: When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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Love and Learn
1947-05-02
Love and Learn
Overview: A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Two Guys from Texas
1948-08-27
Two Guys from Texas
Overview: Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-27
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The Shining Future
1944-04-11
The Shining Future
Overview: Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-11
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946-07-26
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Overview: Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-26
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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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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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She's Got Everything
1937-12-31
She's Got Everything
Overview: The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Quick Money
1937-12-10
Quick Money
Overview: Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Crashing Hollywood
1938-01-07
Crashing Hollywood
Overview: A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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High Flyers
1937-11-07
High Flyers
Overview: Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-07
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Night Spot
1938-02-25
Night Spot
Overview: A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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John Loves Mary
1949-02-04
John Loves Mary
Overview: After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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One More Tomorrow
1946-05-24
One More Tomorrow
Overview: Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-24
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Shine on Harvest Moon
1944-03-10
Shine on Harvest Moon
Overview: Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-10
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Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961-09-26
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Overview: Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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The Escape
1939-10-05
The Escape
Overview: An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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Navy Blues
1941-09-13
Navy Blues
Overview: On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-13
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On Again—Off Again
1937-07-09
On Again—Off Again
Overview: This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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Condemned Women
1938-03-18
Condemned Women
Overview: A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Ain't Misbehavin'
1955-06-30
Ain't Misbehavin'
Overview: Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-30
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Everybody's Doing It
1938-01-14
Everybody's Doing It
Overview: Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
Genres: Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Alias the Deacon
1940-05-13
Alias the Deacon
Overview: A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Fifth Avenue Girl
1939-09-22
Fifth Avenue Girl
Overview: A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
Parole Fixer
Overview: This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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The Kid From Texas
1939-04-14
The Kid From Texas
Overview: A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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I Take This Woman
1940-02-02
I Take This Woman
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Always Together
1947-12-10
Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Enemy Agent
1940-04-18
Enemy Agent
Overview: A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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Breakdowns of 1941
1941-11-14
Breakdowns of 1941
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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Mister Universe
1951-01-10
Mister Universe
Overview: A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-10
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City of Chance
1940-01-13
City of Chance
Overview: Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-13
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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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Harris in the Spring
1937-12-03
Harris in the Spring
Overview: Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Vivacious Lady
1938-05-13
Vivacious Lady
Overview: College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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You Only Live Once
1937-01-23
You Only Live Once
Overview: Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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Music for Madame
1937-10-08
Music for Madame
Overview: An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Magnificent Roughnecks
1956-07-22
Magnificent Roughnecks
Overview: Two oilmen coax a cook, an oilwoman and a gusher in South America.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-22
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Food and Magic
1943-11-18
Food and Magic
Overview: A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.
Genres: War Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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Breakdowns of 1944
1944-12-31
Breakdowns of 1944
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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Sandy Gets Her Man
1940-11-08
Sandy Gets Her Man
Overview: A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Okay for Sound
1946-09-07
Okay for Sound
Overview: This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-07
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Breakdowns of 1942
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Legion of Lost Flyers
1939-11-02
Legion of Lost Flyers
Overview: A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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Arroyo
1955-10-26
Arroyo
Overview: A sleepy New Mexico town is shocked when a woman arrives after her wagon train was destroyed by Indians. Meanwhile, a pair of mysterious strangers displaying obvious hostility cause problems for the self-appointed judge who runs the town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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