Barbara Nichols
Also Known As: Barbara Marie Nickerauer
Biography: Barbara Marie Nickerauer (December 10, 1928 - October 5, 1976), better known by her stage name, Barbara Nichols, was an American actress and model, who became prominent in the 1950s and 1960s for playing brassy, comic roles in film and television.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mineola, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 05, 1976
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Sweet Smell of Success
Overview: New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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The Photographer
Overview: A murder story with a comedic twist. A famous photographer uses his models for more than taking pictures. He needs them as victims to satisfy his blood-lust. Each murder becomes more bizarre than the next.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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Pal Joey
Overview: An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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The Pajama Game
Overview: An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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The Human Duplicators
Overview: An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Where the Boys Are
Overview: Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-28
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The Naked and the Dead
Overview: Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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The Loved One
Overview: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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The Power
Overview: One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Dear Heart
Overview: A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-07
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Who Was That Lady?
Overview: In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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The George Raft Story
Overview: The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Manfish
Overview: Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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House of Women
Overview: An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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River of No Return
Overview: An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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The Scarface Mob
Overview: Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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Looking for Love
Overview: An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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That Kind of Woman
Overview: A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-11
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Woman Obsessed
Overview: After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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The King and Four Queens
Overview: Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Genres: Western Comedy Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Charley and the Angel
Overview: Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Criminal Affair
Overview: A renowned author, college professor and criminologist is given a year off in order to write his latest book. His arrival in Buenos Aires gives him the opportunity to work on his true project, planning and pulling off the perfect crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-17
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Miracle in the Rain
Overview: Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-31
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The Disorderly Orderly
Overview: Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-16
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Ten North Frederick
Overview: After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-22
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The Swinger
Overview: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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