Isabel Randolph
Also Known As: Isabelle Elfreda Mair
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: March 08, 1887
Deathday: January 11, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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You Can't Ration Love
Overview: In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-28
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Practically Yours
Overview: In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Two Dollar Bettor
Overview: An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-09
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Scrambled Eggs
Overview: Peterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-09
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Tell It to a Star
Overview: Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her well-to-do uncle, "Colonel" Morgan (Alan Mowbray), and a pal blow into town ... until their visit turns out to be a con job. Carol's voice impresses the bandleader (Robert Livingston), but the hotel manager (Franklin Pangborn), still smarting from Morgan's chicanery, isn't ready to give her a chance.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-16
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Hot Shots
Overview: Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Look Who's Laughing
Overview: Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of Wistful Vista. Based on the "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Standing Room Only
Overview: During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms. In desperation, they pretend to be married and hire themselves out as a butler and maid in order to secure lodgings. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
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The Missing Corpse
Overview: A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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The Lady Wants Mink
Overview: A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Here We Go Again
Overview: It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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If You Knew Susie
Overview: In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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A Wonderful Life
Overview: Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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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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Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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The Women
Overview: A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-01
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Sitting Pretty
Overview: Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Overview: Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-14
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Best Foot Forward
Overview: Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-08
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Overview: Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
Genres: Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-05
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Hoosier Holiday
Overview: During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're told they're needed at home more than in the service. Determined to join up, they enlist the aid of a pretty young girl whose father is head of the local draft board.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-13
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Jamboree
Overview: A trio of competing bands vie for a spot on a rural radio program.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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Border City Rustlers
Overview: Two episodes of "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Just when Charlie is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, her admiration turns into suspicion.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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On Their Own
Overview: The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Overview: A female police detective enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Genres: Crime Mystery Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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Barnyard Follies
Overview: A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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O, My Darling Clementine
Overview: "Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws imposed upon it by a City Council under the influence of their domineering wives. Harry Cheshire is under the thumb of his sister Abigail Uppington. One look at "Pappy's" daughter Clementine, and Dan decides to stay in Harmony...Blue Laws or no.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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Secrets of Monte Carlo
Overview: A U.S. businessman abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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Captain Scarface
Overview: A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-15
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Thundering Caravans
Overview: Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-20
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Feudin' Rhythm
Overview: Eddy Arnold, singing star of the Ace Lucky radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a television program is destroyed by a fire. Aces accepts the sponsorship of social-climber Lucille Upperworth, who tries to revamp the western/hillbilly music format to classical music.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-02
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Cowboy Blues
Overview: Starring Ken Curtis and the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots, this musical Western is really Lady for a Day with a switch in gender. Rotund Guy Kibbee is Dusty Nelson, the handyman at the Bar B dude ranch, whose daughter Susan is arriving with her socialite fiancee, Jerome Winston. Susan believes her father owns the ranch, and to spare Dusty any embarrassment, the Hot Shots, ranch manager Curt Durant and sidekick Big Boy Stover agree to continue the deception.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-18
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Overview: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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Dear Ruth
Overview: Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
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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 Corsican Brothers
Overview: Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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Sincerely Yours
Overview: He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-05
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The Noose Hangs High
Overview: Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-05
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The Dark Corner
Overview: Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-09
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Overview: Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-30
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