Ben Blue
Also Known As: Бен Блу, Benjamin Bernstein
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: September 12, 1901
Deathday: March 07, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Guide for the Married Man
Overview: A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-25
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
Overview: When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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For Me and My Gal
Overview: Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Genres: Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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The Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
Overview: The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
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Thousands Cheer
Overview: Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-13
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Broadway Rhythm
Overview: Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
Genres: Family Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Overview: A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-14
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Panama Hattie
Overview: Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-30
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The Arcadians
Overview: 'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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College Swing
Overview: Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Artists & Models
Overview: An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Bring 'Em Back a Wife
Overview: When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an attempt to pass him off as the little woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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Here Comes Flossie!
Overview: A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-09
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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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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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College Holiday
Overview: College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-19
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Thrill of a Lifetime
Overview: "Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-03
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Turn Off the Moon
Overview: Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night at 3:15 a.m. and she will accept. Fate brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith. Keith has been writing music for Dinwiddy's Silver Jubilee show and has allowed Dinwiddy's nephew, Truelove Spencer, to take all the credit. That night, Terry comes into Dinwiddy's to work on the music and finds Caroline asleep in the Honeymoon Cottage, the section of the department store Spencer supervises. Posing as a man named "Pinky," Dinwiddy promises Caroline that Spencer will hire her as the bride of the Honeymoon Cottage and invites her to live there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Cocoanut Grove
Overview: Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Paris Honeymoon
Overview: A Texas millionaire travels to Europe to meet his girlfriend, a European countess. He stops in a rustic mountain village and meets a beautiful peasant girl. He falls in love with her, then must decide if he wants her or the rich countess.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Daredevil O'Dare
Overview: Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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My Wild Irish Rose
Overview: Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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High, Wide and Handsome
Overview: The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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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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Call Her Sausage
Overview: Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous "who's on first" skit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-12
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Strange Innertube
Overview: After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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Taxi Barons
Overview: After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European baron and general. In the same guises they then invade a high society party with the gendarmes in close pursuit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Rummy
Overview: After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben brings in his flea to be stuffed & loses it. They get locked in at night and are frightened.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Wreckety Wrecks
Overview: When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Hot Spot
Overview: When the boys end up with a half-naked woman in their cab, trouble ensues when her jealous husband appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-21
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Very Close Veins
Overview: Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-14
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-31
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The Great Morgan
Overview: Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Two Sisters from Boston
Overview: Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Taxi for Two
Overview: Billy and Ben continually make a mess of things, having multiple accidents with their Taxi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-03
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Badminton
Overview: Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B. Birdbrain bumbles his way through building a backyard badminton court. (This film is played in its entirety in MGM's short feature "The Great Morgan")
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-08
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Overview: When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-19
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The Sky's the Limit
Overview: A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-19
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