Don DeFore
Biography: Donald John "Don" DeFore (August 25, 1913 – December 22, 1993) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1952 to 1957 and the sitcom Hazel from 1961 to 1965, the former which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 25, 1913
Deathday: December 22, 1993
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Without Reservations
1946-05-13
Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Too Late for Tears
1949-07-17
Too Late for Tears
Overview: Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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Dark City
1950-10-17
Dark City
Overview: Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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A Guy Named Joe
1943-12-24
A Guy Named Joe
Overview: A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Genres: Drama Romance War Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Ramrod
1947-05-02
Ramrod
Overview: A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Jumping Jacks
1952-06-11
Jumping Jacks
Overview: Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier. When Chick organises a soldier show at Fort Benning, he realizes he needs his former partner's help—so, to get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized SNAFU.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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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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The Facts of Life
1960-11-14
The Facts of Life
Overview: Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-14
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The Human Comedy
1943-03-02
The Human Comedy
Overview: Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Southside 1-1000
1950-11-16
Southside 1-1000
Overview: The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944-11-15
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Overview: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-15
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947-04-17
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Overview: A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
Battle Hymn
Overview: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
1958-07-09
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Overview: A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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A Girl in Every Port
1952-02-13
A Girl in Every Port
Overview: After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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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 Stork Club
1945-12-28
The Stork Club
Overview: Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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Winning Your Wings
1942-05-28
Winning Your Wings
Overview: Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Kid Galahad
1937-05-29
Kid Galahad
Overview: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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No Room for the Groom
1952-06-13
No Room for the Groom
Overview: A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night arise from illness, her manipulative mother, and a house full of relatives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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She's Working Her Way Through College
1952-07-09
She's Working Her Way Through College
Overview: Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-09
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The Affairs of Susan
1945-07-08
The Affairs of Susan
Overview: Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-08
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One Sunday Afternoon
1948-12-25
One Sunday Afternoon
Overview: The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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We Go Fast
1941-09-19
We Go Fast
Overview: A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
1987-11-25
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
Overview: Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the American family.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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You Came Along
1945-07-04
You Came Along
Overview: War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-04
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The Guy Who Came Back
1951-08-16
The Guy Who Came Back
Overview: Former football star Harry Joplin is down on his luck, both in his career and in his married life. He seems convinced of his own unworthiness, but a chance to play in a charity football game helps him see his life in a new light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-16
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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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Brother Rat
1938-10-29
Brother Rat
Overview: Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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City Without Men
1943-01-14
City Without Men
Overview: A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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All This and World War II
1976-11-12
All This and World War II
Overview: Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.
Genres: History Documentary Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-12
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My Friend Irma
1949-10-14
My Friend Irma
Overview: Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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Men of the Sky
1942-07-25
Men of the Sky
Overview: A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-25
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Return from Nowhere
1944-10-28
Return from Nowhere
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-28
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Rare Breed
1984-10-10
Rare Breed
Overview: A real-life story of a kidnapped horse in Italy, and a young girl's quest to retrieve it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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You Can't Escape Forever
1942-10-10
You Can't Escape Forever
Overview: A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-10
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