Joan Shawlee
Biography: Reliable character actress who is perhaps known for her performance as Sweet Sue in Billy Wilder's comedy classic, "Some Like It Hot" (1959).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 05, 1926
Deathday: March 22, 1987
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Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
Some Like It Hot
Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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The Apartment
1960-06-21
The Apartment
Overview: Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-21
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Irma la Douce
1963-06-05
Irma la Douce
Overview: When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-05
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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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Prehistoric Women
1950-11-01
Prehistoric Women
Overview: Tigri and her stone age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a "necessary evil" and capture them for potential husbands. Engor, who is smarter than the rest of the men, is able to escape them. He discovers fire and battle enormous beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Pride of the Blue Grass
1954-04-04
Pride of the Blue Grass
Overview: A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-04
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Tony Rome
1967-11-10
Tony Rome
Overview: Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-10
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Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
Buck Privates Come Home
Overview: Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-04
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Woman on the Run
1950-11-10
Woman on the Run
Overview: Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Bowery to Bagdad
1955-01-07
Bowery to Bagdad
Overview: The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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Matt Helm
1975-05-07
Matt Helm
Overview: In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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I'll Be Yours
1947-02-02
I'll Be Yours
Overview: A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-02
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The Runaround
1946-06-04
The Runaround
Overview: Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-04
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One More Train to Rob
1971-02-19
One More Train to Rob
Overview: Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Tangier
1946-06-06
Tangier
Overview: In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Lover Come Back
1946-06-21
Lover Come Back
Overview: A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-21
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Cuban Pete
1946-06-26
Cuban Pete
Overview: Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-26
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From Here to Eternity
1953-08-28
From Here to Eternity
Overview: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Farewell, My Lovely
1975-08-08
Farewell, My Lovely
Overview: Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-08
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Never Con a Killer
1977-05-13
Never Con a Killer
Overview: Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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Something for a Lonely Man
1968-11-26
Something for a Lonely Man
Overview: The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-26
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A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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The Reluctant Astronaut
1967-09-05
The Reluctant Astronaut
Overview: Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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Idea Girl
1946-02-08
Idea Girl
Overview: Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-08
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Conquest of Space
1955-04-20
Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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Inside Job
1946-06-14
Inside Job
Overview: A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-14
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Francis Joins the WACS
1954-07-30
Francis Joins the WACS
Overview: Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Flash and the Firecat
1975-05-31
Flash and the Firecat
Overview: Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-31
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House of Horrors
1946-03-29
House of Horrors
Overview: An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967-06-30
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Willard
1971-07-30
Willard
Overview: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-30
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Kiss My Grits
1982-06-18
Kiss My Grits
Overview: A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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All Ashore
1953-03-03
All Ashore
Overview: Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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The Vigilantes Return
1947-05-31
The Vigilantes Return
Overview: Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.
Genres: Music Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-31
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Live a Little, Love a Little
1968-10-23
Live a Little, Love a Little
Overview: Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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The Wild Angels
1966-07-20
The Wild Angels
Overview: A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
1971-12-17
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: A photographer is chased by professional killers who have mistaken him for the person they're really after.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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Buddy Buddy
1981-04-02
Buddy Buddy
Overview: During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Guerillas in Pink Lace
1964-01-01
Guerillas in Pink Lace
Overview: An American gambler masquerades as a Catholic priest during the fall of Manilla early in World War II in the Pacific to obtain clearance to fly out on an official military transport. Five American showgirls wrangle a pass with the aid of a helpful U.S. Army colonel to leave on the same plane. Ironically, the transport crashes at sea. The gambler and the girls wind up on a Japanese held island. Initially, they stay out of sight from the enemy, but inevitably things change.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
White Tie and Tails
Overview: When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Michigan Kid
1947-08-11
Michigan Kid
Overview: A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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Child Bride of Short Creek
1981-12-07
Child Bride of Short Creek
Overview: A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-07
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Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Song of Scheherazade
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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