Lee Bowman
Also Known As: Lucien Lee Bowman, Ли Боуман
Biography: Lee Bowman (December 28, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American film and television actor. According to one obituary, "his roles ranged from romantic lead to worldly, wisecracking lout in his most famous years".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birthday: December 28, 1914
Deathday: December 25, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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House by the River
Overview: Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-25
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Cover Girl
Overview: A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-22
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My Dream Is Yours
Overview: Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Go West
Overview: Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Buck Privates
Overview: Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Tonight and Every Night
Overview: An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-09
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Bataan
Overview: During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-03
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Love Affair
Overview: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Kid Glove Killer
Overview: Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Overview: A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Overview: Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Design for Scandal
Overview: A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Overview: A PI investigates a priest's murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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This Way Please
Overview: A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Pacific Rendezvous
Overview: A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Genres: Comedy Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Overview: Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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Youngblood Hawke
Overview: An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Gold Rush Maisie
Overview: Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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I Met Him in Paris
Overview: Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-28
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Sophie Lang Goes West
Overview: Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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The Impatient Years
Overview: Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie's father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to give his version of their story. They had met in San Francisco fifteen months earlier and, after knowing each other only three days, had gotten married. Andy was sent overseas the day after the wedding and when he returns and despite the fact that Janie had borne him a son, they find they are almost strangers. Mr. Smith suggests, and the judge orders, that if they retrace their actions over the four days they knew each other they would regain their love.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-10
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Stronger Than Desire
Overview: An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Society Lawyer
Overview: Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-21
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A Man to Remember
Overview: On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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We Were Dancing
Overview: A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-30
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Tarnished Angel
Overview: A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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The Great Victor Herbert
Overview: In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Florian
Overview: Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-05
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The Lady and the Mob
Overview: Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-03
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The Last Train from Madrid
Overview: The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Next Time I Marry
Overview: Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Married Bachelor
Overview: A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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The First Hundred Years
Overview: David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Washington Melodrama
Overview: An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Three Hearts for Julia
Overview: When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Tish
Overview: In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Model Wife
Overview: Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Swing High, Swing Low
Overview: In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry. She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success. Fame and fortune go to his head which eventually destroys his relationship with Maggie and his career.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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Wyoming
Overview: With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-13
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Dancing Co-Ed
Overview: After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Internes Can't Take Money
Overview: Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Up in Mabel's Room
Overview: Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-12
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There's a Girl in My Heart
Overview: A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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The Lie
Overview: A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s a friend of the man’s girlfriend. The performer suggests that all the men go out for a few drinks, and the next thing the businessman knows, he’s waking up in his apartment with a terrible hangover and a dead body in his room.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Based on the classic Broadway operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, this live television special became an annual Christmas tradition with rotating cast members.
Genres: Music Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-18
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