Ruth Gordon
Biography: Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Gordon began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen. Known for her nasal voice and distinctive personality, she gained international recognition and critical acclaim for film roles that continued into her seventies and eighties. Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968), Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980). In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous plays, film scripts, and books, most notably co-writing the screenplay for the 1949 film Adam's Rib. Gordon won an Oscar, an Emmy, and two Golden Globe Awards for her acting, as well as received three Academy Award nominations for her writing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Gordon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 30, 1896
Deathday: August 28, 1985
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Harold and Maude
1971-12-20
Harold and Maude
Overview: The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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Rosemary's Baby
1968-06-12
Rosemary's Baby
Overview: A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Scavenger Hunt
1979-12-21
Scavenger Hunt
Overview: An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Action in the North Atlantic
1943-06-12
Action in the North Atlantic
Overview: Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-12
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Information Please Series 2, No. 2
1940-10-04
Information Please Series 2, No. 2
Overview: This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star of the then-current Broadway play, "Life With Father", as a visiting guest expert. Questions involved football plays, license plates and plays that dealt with family relationships.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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Where’s Poppa?
1970-11-10
Where’s Poppa?
Overview: When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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Every Which Way but Loose
1978-12-16
Every Which Way but Loose
Overview: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens
1984-03-09
Voyage of the Rock Aliens
Overview: Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock band, the Pack. The leader of the aliens takes a shine to Dee Dee and all sorts of trouble breaks out.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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Jimmy the Kid
1982-11-12
Jimmy the Kid
Overview: Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Any Which Way You Can
1980-12-17
Any Which Way You Can
Overview: Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Inside Daisy Clover
1965-12-22
Inside Daisy Clover
Overview: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Big Bus
1976-06-23
The Big Bus
Overview: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Lord Love a Duck
1966-02-21
Lord Love a Duck
Overview: From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-21
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Edge of Darkness
1943-04-09
Edge of Darkness
Overview: The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Don't Go to Sleep
1982-12-10
Don't Go to Sleep
Overview: One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Two-Faced Woman
1941-12-31
Two-Faced Woman
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969-08-20
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Overview: An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-20
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940-02-23
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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The Whirl of Life
1915-10-21
The Whirl of Life
Overview: The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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Maxie
1985-09-27
Maxie
Overview: When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
1976-10-29
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby
Overview: Baby Adrian is now all grown up and separated from his mother, wrestling with the occult influences that plague him, and trying to outrun Satan himself.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Boardwalk
1979-11-14
Boardwalk
Overview: In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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The Trouble with Spies
1987-12-04
The Trouble with Spies
Overview: George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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The Great Houdinis
1976-10-08
The Great Houdinis
Overview: A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Delta Pi
1984-04-01
Delta Pi
Overview: A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Isn't It Shocking?
1973-10-02
Isn't It Shocking?
Overview: A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-02
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The Prince of Central Park
1977-06-17
The Prince of Central Park
Overview: A lonely widow who frequents Central Park becomes emotionally involved with two orphaned youngsters who have built an oasis for themselves there after fleeing from a foster home. A young Brooke Shields made her TV acting debut in a small role.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Blithe Spirit
1966-12-07
Blithe Spirit
Overview: Adaptation of the Noel Coward play.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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Hardhat & Legs
1980-02-09
Hardhat & Legs
Overview: A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-09
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Perfect Gentlemen
1978-03-14
Perfect Gentlemen
Overview: Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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The Ten-Year Lunch
1987-09-28
The Ten-Year Lunch
Overview: The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-28
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Night of 100 Stars
1982-03-08
Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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My Bodyguard
1980-07-11
My Bodyguard
Overview: Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their "business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators - and a very special friendship with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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