Josephine Whittell
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Birthday: November 29, 1883
Deathday: June 01, 1961
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Chinatown at Midnight
1949-11-17
Chinatown at Midnight
Overview: A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by the police after his latest Chinatown robbery turns violent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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It's a Gift
1934-11-30
It's a Gift
Overview: After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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The Devil Thumbs a Ride
1947-02-20
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Overview: Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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Love Time
1934-11-03
Love Time
Overview: Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him to play with more feeling, for he is playing a piece by Franz Schubert, her favorite composer. Unknown to Valerie, the man is Schubert, and he playfully keeps his identity a secret. Valerie visits Franz the next day, and he teaches her to play the violin part of a new song he has written, and she hopes for romance though he still longs for his lost love Caroline. But as a week passes, he forgets Caroline and returns Valerie's affections. When Franz is evicted, there is much tumult, but he is finally called to court where his music is celebrated, and Valerie and he are reunited.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-03
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Caught Plastered
1931-08-21
Caught Plastered
Overview: Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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Symphony of Six Million
1932-04-29
Symphony of Six Million
Overview: A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-29
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Peach-o-Reno
1931-12-25
Peach-o-Reno
Overview: After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-25
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Larceny on the Air
1937-01-11
Larceny on the Air
Overview: A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-11
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Beware Of Ladies
1936-12-21
Beware Of Ladies
Overview: An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-21
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Follow Your Heart
1936-08-10
Follow Your Heart
Overview: An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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Adventure in Baltimore
1949-04-19
Adventure in Baltimore
Overview: Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-19
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Boy Trouble
1939-01-27
Boy Trouble
Overview: A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Women Are Like That
1938-04-23
Women Are Like That
Overview: Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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The Life of Vergie Winters
1934-06-14
The Life of Vergie Winters
Overview: A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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The Big Moment
1954-03-07
The Big Moment
Overview: Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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The Accused
1949-01-12
The Accused
Overview: A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-12
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Shanghai
1935-07-19
Shanghai
Overview: A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Blondie
1938-11-30
Blondie
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937-12-03
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Overview: We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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The Virginian
1946-05-05
The Virginian
Overview: Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-05
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Life with Henry
1941-01-23
Life with Henry
Overview: Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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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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Lucky Night
1939-05-05
Lucky Night
Overview: Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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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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The Women
1939-09-01
The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Sitting Pretty
1948-03-10
Sitting Pretty
Overview: Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Shakedown
1950-09-01
Shakedown
Overview: Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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That Brennan Girl
1946-12-23
That Brennan Girl
Overview: Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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In the Good Old Summertime
1949-07-29
In the Good Old Summertime
Overview: Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-29
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The Goldbergs
1950-12-23
The Goldbergs
Overview: Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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Having Wonderful Crime
1945-04-12
Having Wonderful Crime
Overview: Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Easy to Wed
1946-07-25
Easy to Wed
Overview: When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Alimony
1917-12-03
Alimony
Overview: Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divorce attorneys who live well on their percentage from unscrupulously secured divorces carrying a large alimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-03
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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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Infernal Machine
1933-04-08
Infernal Machine
Overview: This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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What Price Hollywood?
1932-06-24
What Price Hollywood?
Overview: Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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Mills of the Gods
1934-12-15
Mills of the Gods
Overview: Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940-10-26
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Overview: Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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All Business
1936-02-14
All Business
Overview: Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Marie, Ltd.
1919-03-23
Marie, Ltd.
Overview: When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop. On the way, she meets the handsome Blair Carson (Leslie Austen), but the budding love affair gets sidetracked as Drina begins working for her mother. Marie has been running a petty scam -- when a man buys a hat for his wife or sweetheart, she overcharges him and splits the difference with the woman. The Archives Du Film Du CNC holds a complete copy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-23
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A Place in the Sun
1951-06-12
A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Easy to Take
1936-11-06
Easy to Take
Overview: To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Baby Face
1933-07-13
Baby Face
Overview: A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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The Fountainhead
1949-06-25
The Fountainhead
Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-25
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Too Young to Kiss
1951-11-22
Too Young to Kiss
Overview: Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Jealousy
1934-11-23
Jealousy
Overview: Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
1956-10-01
The Search for Bridey Murphy
Overview: After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The Magnificent Dope
1942-07-01
The Magnificent Dope
Overview: Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Servants' Entrance
1934-09-25
Servants' Entrance
Overview: Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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Glamour Boy
1941-12-05
Glamour Boy
Overview: Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
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Kiddie Kure
1940-11-23
Kiddie Kure
Overview: While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently breaks one of his windows. This mishap coincides with a plan hatched by Morton's wife to get her husband's mind off his imaginary illnesses by adopting some children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-23
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Lady in a Jam
1942-06-19
Lady in a Jam
Overview: A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-19
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