Eddie Bracken
Also Known As: Edward Vincent Bracken
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken was an American actor. Bracken became a Hollywood comedy legend with lead performances in the films Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek both in 1944, both of which have been preserved by the National Film Registry. During this era, he also had success on Broadway, with performances in plays like Too Many Girls. Bracken's later movie roles include National Lampoon's Vacation, Oscar, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and Rookie of the Year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Bracken, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 07, 1915
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 14, 2002
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Overview: Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-15
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National Lampoon's Vacation
Overview: Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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Rookie of the Year
Overview: 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in that arm heals too tightly, allowing Henry to throw pitches that are as fast as 103 mph. Henry is spotted at nearby Wrigley Field by Larry "Fish" Fisher, the general manager of the struggling Chicago Cubs, after Henry throws an opponent's home-run ball all the way from the outfield bleachers back to the catcher, and it seems that Henry may be the pitcher that team owner Bob Carson has been praying for.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Overview: A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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Summer Stock
Overview: To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-31
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About Face
Overview: Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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The Fleet's In
Overview: Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Too Many Girls
Overview: Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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Young and Willing
Overview: For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Brown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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Caught in the Draft
Overview: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-04
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Two Tickets to Broadway
Overview: A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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The Girl from Jones Beach
Overview: Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all. Written by Dan Navarro
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-16
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Happy Go Lucky
Overview: A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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A Slight Case of Larceny
Overview: Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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Fun on a Weekend
Overview: Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-15
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Sweater Girl
Overview: College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.
Genres: Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-13
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Life with Henry
Overview: Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Rainbow Island
Overview: Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-05
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Safeguarding Military Information
Overview: World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Reaching for the Sun
Overview: Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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Bring on the Girls
Overview: A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-30
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Out of This World
Overview: An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Hold That Blonde!
Overview: Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Overview: The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-26
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Shinbone Alley
Overview: Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, using a typewriter, and begins to enjoy his new life. Archy develops deep feelings for the lovely but self-destructive cat Mehitabel, but will have to fight to win her from bad-boy tomcat Bill.
Genres: Animation Music Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-26
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Pacific Liner
Overview: The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Wild Wild World
Overview: A study of some bizarre customs as practiced throughout the world: opium smoking and prostitution in Kowloon; interracial lovemaking in a stag movie; showgirls performing in Los Angeles; prostitution in Hong Kong; bullfighting, flamenco dancing, and striptease in Madrid; ancient tribal marriage and fertility rites practiced in Luzon; West Indians dancing in Martinique; and much much more!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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Oscar
Overview: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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Duffy's Tavern
Overview: The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-28
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Ladies' Man
Overview: A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Overview: Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-02
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The American Clock
Overview: Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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A Message of Importance
Overview: In the final push of World War II, with Germany and Japan on the ropes, Eddie Bracken urges the American people to buy more war bonds.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-31
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Baby's Day Out
Overview: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Overview: When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sent to a testing laboratory.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Show Boat
Overview: A stage production of the classic musical, videotaped in front of a live audience at the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II
Overview: American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the morale of the soldiers in World War II. Hosted by Tony Randall the one hour presentation included many clips from the news, USO shows, Armed Forces Radio, US Savings Bonds and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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