Mary Treen
Also Known As: Mary Lou Treen, Mary Louise Summers
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mary Treen (born Mary Louise Summers, March 27, 1907 – July 20, 1989) was an American film and television actress, a familiar face who brought levity to the screen. A minor actress for much of her career, she managed to secure a plain, unassuming niche for herself in the Hollywood of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Early years She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of attorney Don. C. Summers and actress Helene Sullivan Summers. In 1908, when Mary Louise was 11 months old, her mother sued her father for divorce on the grounds that he failed to provide for her. Her father died while she was an infant. She was reared in California by her mother and her stepfather, a physician. Treen attended the Westlake School for Girls and a convent where she tried out successfully in school plays. Career During her career, Treen was seen in over 40 films. Among her film roles were Tilly, the secretary of the Building and Loan, in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and the role of Pat in the drama Kitty Foyle (1940) starring Ginger Rogers. Her longest-running role was as Hilda, the maid and baby nurse, in 64 episodes from 1962 to 1965 of the NBC and CBS sitcom The Joey Bishop Show. Earlier, in the 1954–1955 season, she was cast in thirty-eight episodes as Emily Dodger on the CBS sitcom Willy. Death Treen died of cancer in Newport Beach, California, July 20, 1989. She was 82. Her only survivors were distant cousins. One of her cousins was actor Mort Mills.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Birthday: March 27, 1907
Deathday: July 20, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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Bachelor in Paradise
Overview: A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Strange Impersonation
Overview: A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-16
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The Sad Sack
Overview: Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Bundle of Joy
Overview: Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Calling Homicide
Overview: Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-30
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Girl in 313
Overview: A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-31
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When Gangland Strikes
Overview: In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-15
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Casanova Brown
Overview: Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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The Stooge
Overview: Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Hands Across the Border
Overview: Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-05
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Overview: Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Overview: A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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You Belong to Me
Overview: A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-22
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The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Pride of the Navy
Overview: A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easily maneuverable boat to carry torpedoes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-23
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Flight for Freedom
Overview: A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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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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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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They Gave Him a Gun
Overview: With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
Genres: War Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-07
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So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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God's Country and the Woman
Overview: Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-16
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
Overview: A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-05
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Mystery Broadcast
Overview: A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-23
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Stand By All Networks
Overview: An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-29
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Gun Duel In Durango
Overview: A former outlaw must prove himself innocent after he's accused of bank robbery. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Sweet Music
Overview: A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-23
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And Baby Makes Three
Overview: A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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Broadway Hostess
Overview: Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-07
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Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Down the Stretch
Overview: A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Let's Do It Again
Overview: Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-16
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Marry the Girl
Overview: Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-13
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I Live for Love
Overview: A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-28
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Overview: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Career
Overview: Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job in order to become a Broadway star. Dean Martin is on hand as Maury, an aspiring director also trying to claw his way up the ladder of success. When Maury gets his big break, Sam wants a part in his show, but when Maury, who is unwilling to cast Sam in the production, turns down Sam's request, Sam seduces and marries Maury's girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine). In spite of everything, Maury wants his girl back, and Sam agrees to a divorce on the stipulation that Maury cast him as the star in his next show. Once again, Maury reneges and, before Sam can exact his revenge, Uncle Sam comes to the rescue and he is drafted into the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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Dad for a Day
Overview: The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Kentucky Moonshine
Overview: The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Swing It, Sailor!
Overview: Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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I Love a Soldier
Overview: During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-12
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Always Goodbye
Overview: Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Pacific Blackout
Overview: Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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Rock-a-Bye Baby
Overview: An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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Kitty Foyle
Overview: A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Overview: Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Young Fugitives
Overview: A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Blonde from Brooklyn
Overview: A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-21
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A Day at Santa Anita
Overview: Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Murder by an Aristocrat
Overview: A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-13
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The Birds and the Bees
Overview: On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-11
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
Overview: When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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A Star Is Shorn
Overview: Danny Webb plays wanna-be Hollywood agent, Speedy Williams, while Mary Treen plays Patsy, the best friend of Hazel Hackenschmitt (Ethelreda Leopold). Having just won the hometown title of "Miss Maple Syrup", Hazel decides to move to Hollywood to be a star. Speedy cooks up a scheme to get her seen by important Hollywood producer, B.O. Botswaddle (Raymond Brown) who is known to never make a move without Astrological guidance. This scheme involves making up Patsy with turban and a 3rd Eye, and introducing her to Botswaddle as a mystical seer... one, of course, who see's Hazel as the star of his next motion picture. Naturally, things do not go as planned. Treen is especially memorable in a wonderfully goofy role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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The Powers Girl
Overview: Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Shed No Tears
Overview: A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-09
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Overview: A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Dreamboat
Overview: Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-26
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Red Hot Tires
Overview: An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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I'll Give a Million
Overview: After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Broadway Gondolier
Overview: A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
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Soaring Stars
Overview: Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-25
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Fugitive in the Sky
Overview: Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Dance Charlie Dance
Overview: A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-06
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Dangerous
Overview: Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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'G' Men
Overview: James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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Swing in the Saddle
Overview: In this tuneful western, two curious actresses head West to find out the name of their secret admirer. Songs include: "Amor," (Sunny Skylar, Gabriel Ruiz), "Hey Mabel" (Fred Stryker), "By the River Sainte Marie" (Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren), "She Broke My Heart in Three Places" (Oliver Drake), "When It's Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley" (Robert Martin, Raymond McKee), and "There'll Be a Jubilee" (Phil Moore).
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-30
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Overview: Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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First Love
Overview: In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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High Powered
Overview: Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-27
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Babes in Arms
Overview: Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-10
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Rodeo Dough
Overview: After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Hit Parade of 1943
Overview: When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Missing Witnesses
Overview: A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-11
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Traveling Saleslady
Overview: A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-28
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Tahiti Nights
Overview: Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-28
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One Exciting Week
Overview: The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-08
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A Likely Story
Overview: A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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The Joker is Wild
Overview: A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Maid of Salem
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Merton of the Movies
Overview: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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Jailbreak
Overview: A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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Happiness Ahead
Overview: Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-27
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Talent Scout
Overview: A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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Freshman Love
Overview: A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-18
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They Got Me Covered
Overview: Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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The Night Before the Divorce
Overview: Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Between Us Girls
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Swing Parade of 1946
Overview: A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-19
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Room for One More
Overview: Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-10
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Love Begins at Twenty
Overview: A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-22
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Change of Heart
Overview: While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Danger On Wheels
Overview: During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Brides Are Like That
Overview: Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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A Night at the Ritz
Overview: A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Clipped Wings
Overview: Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Overview: Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Black Diamonds
Overview: A reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and proceeds to investigate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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The Captain's Kid
Overview: In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Miss Pacific Fleet
Overview: A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-14
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Snowed Under
Overview: Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-29
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Viennese Nights
Overview: In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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Babbitt
Overview: Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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A Guy Could Change
Overview: A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-27
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Young Daniel Boone
Overview: Frontier scout Daniel Boone is sent out to locate the only two survivors of General Braddock's men that are believed two have lived through an Indian massacre.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-05
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Surprise
Overview: Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Overview: After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-13
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The Golden Arrow
Overview: A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-23
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Don Juan Quilligan
Overview: When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Rascals
Overview: A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Goodbye, Franklin High
Overview: Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-07
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The Strongest Man in the World
Overview: Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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Double Alibi
Overview: A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Front Page Woman
Overview: Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-11
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The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Lady Bodyguard
Overview: A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Shipmates Forever
Overview: An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-12
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Second Honeymoon
Overview: Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Father Takes a Wife
Overview: A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Swing with Bing
Overview: A short-subject golf film at the fourth annual Bing Crosby Pro-Am at Rancho Santa Fe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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Blue of the Night
Overview: Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Overview: A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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The Errand Boy
Overview: Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Sailor Beware
Overview: Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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Let's Live a Little
Overview: A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-09
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The Navy Way
Overview: The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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Happily Buried
Overview: For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard Wright, president of the Four Square Waffle Iron Company, decide to merge their companies and get married as well. When Richard insists that the new company make square waffle irons rather than round ones, Evelyn calls off the marriage and the company merger. Richard meets a Hindu yogi, who helps him win Evelyn back.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-14
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They All Kissed the Bride
Overview: Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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Public Enemy's Wife
Overview: Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Fun in Acapulco
Overview: Mike Windgren works on a boat in Acapulco, but when the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike finds new work as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Tensions increase when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard—who is also the champion diver of Mexico.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-27
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Overview: A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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Last Stagecoach West
Overview: The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-16
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Overview: Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Overview: Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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Queen of the Mob
Overview: Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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All in a Night's Work
Overview: After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
Overview: An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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