Ozzie Nelson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American band leader, actor, director, and producer. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and long-running television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson. Nelson started his entertainment career as a band leader. He formed and led "The Ozzie Nelson Band," and had some initial limited success. Nelson's records were consistently popular, and in 1934, Nelson enjoyed success with his hit song, "Over Somebody Else's Shoulder," which he introduced. Nelson was their primary vocalist and, from August of 1932, he featured in duets with his other star vocalist, Harriet Hilliard. Nelson's calm, easy vocal style was popular on records and radio and quite similar to son Rick's voice, and Harriet's perky vocals added to the band's popularity. Ozzie Nelson appeared with his band in feature films and short subjects of the 1940s, and often played speaking parts, displaying a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, as in the 1942 musical Strictly in the Groove. He shrewdly promoted the band by agreeing to appear in "soundies," three-minute musical movies shown in "film jukeboxes" of the 1940s. In 1952, when he and his family were established as radio and TV favorites, they starred in a feature film, Here Come the Nelsons, which actually doubled as a "pilot" for the TV series.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 20, 1906
Deathday: June 03, 1975
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The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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People Are Funny
1946-01-11
People Are Funny
Overview: A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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The Impossible Years
1968-12-05
The Impossible Years
Overview: The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-05
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Here Come the Nelsons
1952-02-23
Here Come the Nelsons
Overview: The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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Wave-a-Stick Blues
1944-06-06
Wave-a-Stick Blues
Overview: Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-06
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Sweetheart of the Campus
1941-06-26
Sweetheart of the Campus
Overview: Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Hi, Good Lookin'!
1944-03-22
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Overview: An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-22
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Take It Big
1944-06-09
Take It Big
Overview: Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Honeymoon Lodge
1943-07-23
Honeymoon Lodge
Overview: Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
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The Big Street
1942-08-13
The Big Street
Overview: Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
1943-03-27
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
Overview: Ozzie Nelson leads his orchestra in two standard numbers, and Ozzie performs two novelty songs.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-27
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Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra
1940-06-29
Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra
Overview: Ozzie and his orchestra play a few tunes.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-29
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Disneyland '59
1959-06-15
Disneyland '59
Overview: Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Strictly in the Groove
1942-11-20
Strictly in the Groove
Overview: College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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